HIS263Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Catholic Monarchs, Black Death, Spice Trade
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Northwestern europe to 1491: conditions in northwestern europe were highly unsettled in the dive centuries leading to contact. Norman ( decedents of viking immigrants to france) The commoners were a mix-their ethnicity was different from their feudal masters. The first voyageurs: the vikings and others: norsemen/vikings started settling in faroe (18th century), shetland and orkney islands in north atlantic. They went wherever treasure was, and trading in the east. They used gun-and-run approach; sailing into its port, seizing its gold and murdering/enslaving before fleeing. Started settling in british isles and island in 870 ce: eric the red: viking that was banished because he was accused of murder. He explored to the west and found a settlement in a poorly charted, snowy coastline: erik went back to iceland after his exile to get people to prosper the land. He had passed a(cid:374)d (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed the (cid:449)ord (cid:862)gree(cid:374)la(cid:374)d(cid:863) as a (cid:271)ra(cid:374)di(cid:374)g ploy hoping it would appeal to overpopulated and treeless settlement.
