The Vikings Go East (TRIH ep 148)
900 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the Vikings in the East, tracing Scandinavian river routes into the lands of the Volga, Dnieper and Black Sea and exploring why Norsemen travelled east to Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate. They discuss staging points such as Gotland, Birka and Staraya Ladoga; the economics of fur, silver and the slave trade; and how Viking technology enabled long river voyages.
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Around 900
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)