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Vikings: Western Europe
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Harder - Vikings were fierce warriors who terrorized Europe from the late 700's to about 1100 AD. Early in this period, Vikings conquered or looted parts of England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, and Spain. Later, they established trading centers and trade routes in those regions.
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Most of the archaeological investigations undertaken on the Viking Age have been focused on the two hundred years or so the Vikings spent raiding Europe. The first attacks on England took place in AD 793, and they continued intermittently until around the mid-11th century, when the last Viking king Harald was killed and nation states were assembled in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
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Vikings traveled to the west and Varangians, who were best known as the Varangian Guards of the Byzantine emperors, to the east. This period of European history (generally dated to 793 - 1066 AD) is often referred to as the Viking Age.
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Aside from Ibn Fadlan, almost all sources indicate that the Vikings were the among the cleanliest of all Europeans during the Middle Ages. In the summer, bathing could be preformed in lakes or streams, or within the bath-houses found on every large farm (these would be much like the Finnish sauna, though tub bathing was ... used), while in winter the heated bath-house would be the primary location for bathing4. In Iceland where natural hot springs are common, the naturally heated water was incorporated into the bath-house.
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