Experts Present the Case That Even The Vikings Were Not The First To Discover America Due To New Evi
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[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;49483704]Might have something to do with the distance to Europe. In Greenland they could (for a long time) have some kind of cultural and supply trade with Denmark/Norway/etc, probably wouldn't be as easy in Canada - after all people lived on both Iceland and Færøerne which could function as jump point to Greenland. The colonies on Greenland died out not long after contact with Europe ended, though the cut off may also just be a byproduct of what killed the colonies.
Also iirc the first encounters with the indians weren't exactly pleasant, might be it went better in Greenland - or it might be that they simply didn't meet that many eskimoes.[/QUOTE]
Iirc the reason the Greenland colonies died was due to the little ice age since settlers could no longer farm for food and therefore starved to death, I mean the kings of Norway knew Greenland was out there, and claimed to rule over it, but never actually had any people living there
Actually the norwegians in Greenland clung on very well. They actually decided to evacuate in the fifteenth century when the cooling climate made life difficult. They didn't really die out because theres hardly any valuable materials left in the towns and they display evidence of planned abandonment. I assume they all moved to Iceland.
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