SCAN 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jared Diamond, Free Republic, New Idea

• School: UBC
• Department: Scandinavian
• Course: SCAN 335
• Professor: G E O F F R E Y W I N T H R O P- Y O U N G,

Document Summary

Iceland is not that big in term of both population and area. Threw the status of odin into ocean and said he would settle wherever that status came ashore. There were a few but was dispatched. Biggest native animal you can find is roden. Iceland is considered the first world for european. Tectonic danger is absent from other european countries. Everyone who arrived could take a piece of land that you can finished walking in one day. Why these colones success or failed -- four environmental factors. Distance from continental europe is good thus good for trading. Interested distance for europe to take over. No indigenous population thus no resistance and no one to confront. Iceland is due to volcanic eruption and thus soil was ashes. Income people and animals need wood and root to survive. Concentrated on fishing and iceland was dependent on european countries which was pretty poor. Focus of free republic if the law.