Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries" channel.

I can’t believe they took so long to find the Kings chapel! At the point where they talked about possible flowerbeds I was almost yelling »look inside the hall!« When something is sacred, the next generation always try to include it in the next, sacred building. There’s hardly a village church in Denmark which isn’t built upon a former, wooden church and beneath this is often traces of pagan holy places. Nearby are often the most prominent Bronze Age grave mounds and even those are sometimes built upon huge mounds erected in the Stone Age…
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@pillager6190 Spot on! But the native Americans were also warring among each other before the europeans began to arrive in larger numbers than the native chieftains could fathom. I suppose the main difference was agricultural development giving basis for raising many more children per family than the American Indians would ever dream of. Even as early as the viking age, this tendency to produce so much offspring they had to seek their fortune elsewhere was established. Only one son or daughter could inherit the farm, lest it would diminish in size with every generation. So the daughters got their dowry and the sons a fully equipped ship or part in a ship or cargo and off they went to make their fortune. After 5.5 centuries there was no more land to take in Europe, and the ships were more suited for long hauls, so next stop: America, I guess…
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@cmarq817 Yes, and this seems very natural, because any community must need to stay coherent during times of paradigm changes, so naturally would strive to accommodate the old within the new…
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@driftwoodkitty Oh, we were right 😊
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@cmarq817 Certainly! Ideological wars or crusades never originate with the people. Only two things make us take up weapons on our own: Famine and oppression.
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