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Hedeby (800–1066)

c. 800–1066 — The great trading town of the Danes at the base of the Jutland peninsula, where Baltic and North Sea routes met. Islamic silver, slaves, furs and glass passed through it, and its earthen ramparts still stand. It was destroyed in the wars of the mid-eleventh century.

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Turning point
Chapter
Viking expansion and the longship (chapter 2 of Norse and Aztecs)
Atlas
Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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Map showing Hedeby (800–1066), turning point in Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
TURNING POINT · CLIMATE AND INNOVATION: THE NORSE AND THE AZTECS, C. 790–1521

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