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Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521

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Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521 told in 12 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 35 dated maps and 58 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age
CHAPTER 1 · 1250
Viking expansion and the longship
CHAPTER 2 · 866
Settlement of Iceland
CHAPTER 3 · 930
Vikings in Greenland and Vinland
CHAPTER 4 · 1021
Why the Norse abandoned Greenland
CHAPTER 5 · 1408
Norse stockfish trade and legacy
CHAPTER 6 · 1450
Founding of Tenochtitlan
CHAPTER 7 · 1428
Aztec dikes, aqueducts and floods
CHAPTER 8 · 1499
Aztec chinampas
CHAPTER 9 · 1515
Layout of Tenochtitlan
CHAPTER 10 · 1519
Fall of the Aztec Empire
CHAPTER 11 · 1521
Norse and Aztecs compared
CHAPTER 12 · 1500

Norse and Aztecs maps by year

c. 790866c. 886930985–861021c. 1050c. 1250c. 1300c. 13601408c. 1450c. 1500c. 1150c. 11501325132514281428c. 1449c. 1449146914691481148114991499c. 1515c. 1515NOV 1519NOV 151915201520MAY–AUG 1521MAY–AUG 1521

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Battles, events and sites of memory

● Acuecuexco aqueduct flood● Althing at Þingvellir● Archdiocese of Niðaróss✕ Battle of Otumba✕ Battle of Taximaroa● Bishop’s seat at Garðar● Brattahlíð, Erik the Red’s farm● Bryggen Hanseatic wharf, Bergen● Cempoala● Chapultepec aqueduct● Chinampas of Xochimilco◆ Cholula massacre● Conquest of Chalco● Crête ice core● Cuauhnahuac (Cuernavaca)● Cuetlaxtlan● Culhuacan✕ Fall of Azcapotzalco● Famine of One Rabbit● Farm Beneath the Sand● Flateyjarbók✕ Great Heathen Army captures York● Greenland ice cores (GISP2 and GRIP)● Hedeby● Herjólfsnes● Hofstaðir Viking hall● Huaxtepec botanical garden● Hvalsey Church● Ingólfr Arnarson’s farm at Reykjavík● Iztapalapa● Kaupang● Kingittorsuaq Runestone✕ La Noche Triste◆ Last stand at Tlatelolco● Launch of Cortés’s brigantines● Lewis chessmen● Lofoten stockfish trade at Vágar● L’Anse aux Meadows● Meeting of Moctezuma and Cortés● Nezahualcoyotl’s dike● Norðrseta walrus hunting grounds● Ohthere of Hålogaland● Oseberg ship● Sandnes in the Western Settlement● Scoop Lake sediment records◆ Siege of Tenochtitlan● Skuldelev ships at Roskilde● Stöng longhouse, Þjórsárdalur● Templo Mayor● Texcoco● Texcotzingo● Thule and Norse contact, Ruin Island● Tlatelolco market● Tlaxcalan alliance with Cortés● Tochtepec◆ Toxcatl massacre● Viking Dublin● Viking raid on Lindisfarne

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Study and test

Norse and Aztecs questions and answers Norse and Aztecs quiz The printable study guide IB History notes: The Norse and the Aztecs

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