Resumo de The Vikingos, The Soldiers Of The North

the Vikingos, the Soldiers of the North

Vikingos is called to them to the population of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden and Denmark mainly) that terrified the European territory around the century I SAW the XI and means " Men of the Norte". The vikingos owned quick called ships " Drakkars" that they used to sack the European towns of fast and brutal way, before a serious resistance was organized. The Vikingos the coasts crossed the sea quickly knocking down from his " drakkars" (calls thus because the prows and sterns of their ships were adorned with dragoon heads). The vikingos, that " means; men of norte" , they were the last one of the Germanic called Barbarian tribes by the Romans whom Europe terrified. The population felt frightened by the vikingos due to its ferocity and cruelty. On the other hand, besides good soldiers, the vikingos were skilful craftsmen, sailors, explorers and retailers. The way of sacking of the vikingos drove the construction of castles and favored the political decentralization of the feudalism. In addition the vikingos established political and administrative regimes in the conquered territories. Some of them did not survive the era of the vikingos, like the kingdoms of Dublín and York; but Iceland continues existing like State, the monarchy of Kiev would be the base of the Russian Empire, and tracks of the organizing talent of the vikingos heads are clearly visible nowadays in the Isle of Man and Normandía. The beginning of the appointment of vikingos to the Scandinavians took place with the sacking of the monastery of Lindisfarne (793), soon being followed by attacks other monasteries, since the Vikingos had pagan traditions and beliefs in the Nordic Gods (Odín, Thor, Heimdall). The populations of the coasts of Germany, France and Great Britain lived in the terror on being imprisoned of the incursions of the vikingos. The magnitude and frequency of the incursions vikingas in England, France and Germany increased until the point to become true invasions, in which establishments with a view to later incursions settled down. The establishment territory vikingo of the northwest of France denominated Normandía, that comes from the term " men of norte" and he gave the name of Norman to his inhabitants. The vikingos used the unpredictable thing of their arrivals like means to bring about a psychological terror to the populations that attacked. Suddenly, at the end of century VIII the vikingos began their aggressive incursions on the coasts of Europe. The incursions of the vikingos possibly had to the discovery of the wealth of the towns of the south by the retailers, combined to the relative weakness of these and their advantage like experience navigators and quick boats. The region of Scandinavia is formed mainly by Norway Sweden and Finland. Later the Vikingos would conquer territories in England, Germany, France and Russia, later to be assimilated by their culture. A great Danish army of the vikingos invaded England in the 865, continuing throughout two centuries its expansion by most of the island. Internode, that governed Denmark and Norway simultaneously, was one of the last vikingos kings of England before year 1066. A great fleet that crossed the Seine with the intention to attack Paris in year 871 had surrounded the city during two years, until it reached a beneficial economic agreement for the vikingos. In exchange for the cease of the incursions and the conversion of the vikingos to the Christianity in year 911, the king of France gave to the appointment of Duke to the head vikingo of Normandía. From the duchy of Normandía, several famous vikingos soldiers arose. The Vikingos and its descendants most of controlled during some time the Baltic coast, great part of the interior of Russia, Normandía (France), England, Sicily, the south of Italy yparte of Palestine. The Vikingos, to the control of Erik the Red one, colonized Greenland in the 985 and it says that his son Leif Erikson arrived at the new world and explored part of North America five hundred years before Columbus. The incursions of the vikingos stopped at the end of the century X. Denmark, Sweden and Norway had become kingdoms, and the kings most of dedicated their energies to the government of their dominions. With the expansion of the Christianity, the old values soldiers of the vikingos were debilitated until disappearing. The cultures that they had conquered absorbed them; and thus the occupants and conquerors of England became English, the Norman French, and the Russian varegos. The vikingos mainly adored the pagan Gods of Nordic mythology, of which Odín was most important. The Normen on the other hand, left Normandía and raised the thrones of the kingdom of Jerusalem, England, Cecilia, Naples, and of the Latin Empire. . . .
The vikingos stopped making raids at the end of century X, partly due to their conversion to the Christianity that implied the abandonment of its past pagan beliefs and values soldiers. The cultures that surrounded the vikingos locations in Russia, France and Great Britain absorbed to the vikingos. The military development that would generate the battles of the vikingos would soon find use in the Middle East with the coming of the crossed ones.

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