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So what would be the political and cultural (especially modern day) on the world if the raiding/exploring culture of the viking had never come about/was destroyed before making an impact?
Alright, well, have the Volga Bulgars fight and destroy the settlers, the British to not fragment (maybe a Roman General founds a stable kingdom) and the Franks going North. Alright, assuming that happens how would politics and culture change, especially modern day culture, which seems to love the whole Barbarian hero the last few decadesYou'll need something that butterflies the Vikings. There was an earlier thread with a Carolingian POV that neutered the Vikings somehow--I think it was a Frankish conquest (or at least crippling) of Denmark.
That being said, there'd still be the Swedish Vikings (who colonized Russia) and the Norwegians (who raided Ireland and western Britain) to contend with.
Alright, well, have the Volga Bulgars fight and destroy the settlers, the British to not fragment (maybe a Roman General founds a stable kingdom) and the Franks going North. Alright, assuming that happens how would politics and culture change, especially modern day culture, which seems to love the whole Barbarian hero the last few decades
So your saying all the Germanic peoples were in essence, vikings? Well for this scenario I'm specifically refering to the Scandinavian Raiders/explorers of the 600-900s, so those 3 don't count. I should have clarified that.It would have taken complete Roman conquest of the Germanic people--all the way to Trondheimfjord. Which would not have been easy. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes were after all, Vikings too.
Had the Romans conquered Germania only up to and including the Heruli, it is possible that the Nyorsk and the Svenski would have gotten their raiding and conquest over with in the 5th Century.
Well, for starters, there would be no russia (or at least, not as we know it) as it was founded largly by sweedish vikings(Ruric himslf was a swede). Even the name, as far as I know, comes from them.
So what would be the political and cultural (especially modern day) on the world if the raiding/exploring culture of the viking had never come about/was destroyed before making an impact?
Not a big impact but still: no European settlements on Greenland and Vinland in that time?
This would have huge butterflies across Europe. No Normans so an Anglo- Saxon England, France would be drastically changed and the Rus may never exist.