Norse and Aztecs · BATTLE SITE ·
Great Heathen Army captures York (866)
On the Norse and Aztecs map as “York — the Great Army”
November 866 — The Great Army that had landed in East Anglia the year before captured York, the capital of Northumbria. As Jórvík it became the seat of Scandinavian kings and a busy trading town until 954, when its last king, usually identified as Erik Bloodaxe, was driven out.
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- Viking expansion and the longship (chapter 2 of Norse and Aztecs)
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- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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- Industrial Revolution
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