Modern Media and Lockean, Utopian thinking

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[–]YJaewedwqewqClerical Fascist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Their entire thing was sailing around pillaging and fighting one another. They were far more complex than other relatively savage groups, but they weren't comparable to (sorta) unified states like Rome, obviously.

Both groups often engaged in brutal conflicts of raiding and piracy, murdering and enslaving their nieghbors or other targets. The Visigoths even sacked Rome.

[–]DragonerneJesus is white 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Their entire thing was sailing around pillaging and fighting one another

Because the romans didn't do that?

The vikings had the most sophisticated ships at the time, the nordics had previously spread the chariots and many other inventions. They had a complicated trading network all across Europe, even to North America, Middle east, Africa and Asia.

Scandinavian groups such as the cimbri, lombards, burgundians and goths contributed to the southern civilisations at various times.
The sacking of rome is an example of Germanic superiority, not savagery.

[–]TheJamesRocket 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Vikings raided the coasts of Europe, wiping out villages and taking slaves to be sold to the Islamic caliphate. The Vikings were pagan savages who menaced christian Europe, at a time when it was already struggling for survival against the muslim hordes. The only good thing the Vikings did was that they eventually gave up their rapacious lifestyle and settled down.