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Monasteries were ideal Viking targets because they were wealthy banks, landowners, business centers, and religious treasuries protected more by sacred trust than by military force.
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Pillage
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"Okay? The opportunity are monasteries. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, everyone believes that Europe became a lot poorer. Okay? And that's historical..."
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"...they were considered protected by God, they made perfect places to pillage."
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"...knew all these places, and so these places were perfect to pillage. And that's what really started the Viking Age, the fact that wealth..."
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"...okay they become like a wolf pack who then go and pillage other villages and that's how you start and that's and that's how..."
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"...sort of encounter is when the Vikings start to raid and pillage Europe."
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"...were able to develop the ship technology that enabled them to pillage across Europe. Okay? So that's the main advantage of the borderlands. Okay?..."
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"...each other is some people in the borderlands will raid and pillage the empire. The outskirts of the empire for resources. Okay? So they..."
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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