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Longships embodied Viking egalitarianism and innovation: they were small, flexible, low-hierarchy, river-capable, and constantly improved.
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Longships
Longships embodied Viking egalitarianism and innovation: they were small, flexible, low-hierarchy, river-capable, and constantly improved.
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Europe's feudal military hierarchy made adaptation hard because changing tactics against Vikings would have required changing the social hierarchy that armored knights supported.
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"...focused on the oral tradition. Let's look very quickly at their longships, which is the dominant, dominant, maritime technology of the day. Okay? These..."
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"...somewhere else. Okay? All right. So that's the idea of the longships. And again, this was the dominant maritime technology of that time."
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"The Europeans had absolutely no way to counter this. Okay? Also, what's important for us to understand is, the Vikings had also many different..."
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"Right? The Vikings knew all these places, and so these places were perfect to pillage. And that's what really started the Viking Age, the..."
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"These knights would take this land and run it to farmers. Over time, as we know, farmers will incur a lot of debt. Which..."
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"Okay? So, if you were a navy like Athens, you were a democracy. If you had a cavalry like the Macedonians, you were a..."
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"So, the structure of your military determined the structure of your political system. So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because..."
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