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Originally Posted by Halcyon Hero  (it's late February in Texas, guess what's com'n?). |
... Snow? :p
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Originally Posted by Tiroth Dunnow. When was the Viking Age? (If it helps, the powerful fleet of ships that kept sinking Viking raiders was put together in direct response to Viking raiders.) |
I'm a bit fussy on the details, but I'm pretty sure the Danes ruled much of England at one point. :3
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Yes, but I don't think they considered themselves Vikings by that point.
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Well, if they didn't consider themselves Vikings, they'd have considered themselves French. Choose your poison. :3
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A sea and the most powerful navy in the world. We also had a lot more rival neighbours than you think; it's just that most of them weren't powerful enough to bother us.
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I'm pretty sure that, depending on the era, the Venetians and Spanish and Byzantines and Turks would've had a thing or two to say about the most powerful navy in the world thing.
As for the neighbours, I'm pretty sure that the English were in a
much more comfortable situation than the French.
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See: The British Empire.  And bear in mind that the French finally threw us out of France after over a century of constant English raids. It wasn't much of a victory.
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The British Empire didn't happen until much later, though. In the end, you were bested by the French. :3