1200-1400 A.D.

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This paper explores the interconnections of the world between the years 1200 and 1400 A.D. The paper focuses on four major world events which are of great importance, due to their long-term influence on the indigenous cultures of North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 1)The Vikings, with their conquests and explorations of northern Europe and the shores of North America; 2)the social/political effects of the Crusades; 3)the explorations and discoveries of Marco Polo; and 4)the widespread consequences of the Black Death.

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"The Vikings also reached ports in the Baltic Sea which allowed their ships to penetrate the entire European continent via the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; it has been suggested that the Vikings even reached parts of Asia, where they traded ivory and furs for spices, silver and other commodities unavailable in the Nordic regions. Also, the Vikings explored the entire region of the North Atlantic, virtually discovered Iceland and Greenland, and settled in parts of England, Scotland, Ireland and Normandy and perhaps the coast of North America in present-day Canada and Newfoundland."

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