And could that have being just before the rise of the first Greek empires (for the myth of a super-evolved land situated somewhere in the Atlantic seemingly comes from early Greece/Minoans)?
2007-03-13 11:58:01 · 4 answers · asked by Roy Nicolas 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Greenland was warmer during the Viking era than it is now. It's got nothing to do with Greeks or Minoans, though. No-one lived there before the Erik the Red came.
2007-03-13 12:15:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greenland was warmer than it was later about the year 1000 AD. Norsemen settled it from Iceland at that time. In latyer centuries, about 1400, it became very cold again, and Greenlanders died out or dwindled. It is unlikely that Greenland was ever settled by Minoans or Greeks.
2007-03-13 19:03:10 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We know it was warm. It was colonised by the Vikings in the 1100's and there is archeological evidence of wheat and barley fields. Whether it could have been Atlantis in the Ancient times- that I don't know.
2007-03-13 19:03:01 · answer #3 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes greenland was once the uppermiddle part of pangea so yes it was once a warm place
2007-03-13 19:31:15 · answer #4 · answered by TeeHee :D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋