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Sandnes in the Western Settlement (1000–1350)

On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Sandnes — the Western Settlement”

c. 1000–1350 — One of the largest farms of the Western Settlement, with a church, in the fjords east of modern Nuuk. Like the rest of the settlement it was abandoned around the middle of the fourteenth century, as the Inuit moved into the region.

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Turning point
Chapter
Vikings in Greenland and Vinland (chapter 4 of Norse and Aztecs)
Atlas
Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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Map showing Sandnes in the Western Settlement (1000–1350), 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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