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Vikings came from Scandinavia. Their age lasted from about AD 800 to AD 1100
Originally vikings were farmers but fearlessly crossed the seas in swift sailing ships.
They raided the coasts of England,
braved the Atlantic Ocean to explore Greenland and North America.
They traded as far as the east of Russia and Constantinople.
They had their own laws and a parlament.
Vikings were skilled artists and poets.
Spartans come from a city-state in Ancient Greece.
At some point in historythis state became highly militarized and authoritarian.
All citizens had to go through a training programme from age of seven onwards.
Gradually their state became the most powerful Greece,
a center for solders and the military arts.
They warred with Athens and won a victory over it.
Spartans are supposed to have been simple, severe, without any attention to comfort.
They say that Spartans practised killing weak boys who were not fit to be soldiers,
by throwing them off the rock.
Indians were grouped into tribes that shared the same language and culture.
They were governed by meetings of elders.
Tribes were always ready to fight each other.
War called for individual leadership. In some areas the tribes gathered into
more permanent confederations under the rule of chiefs.
Some time ago these people were often seen as cruel and ruthless but nowadays
this point of view is not very popular. Indians suffered greatly from Europian settlers.
On some territories Indians were forced to leave their lands and to live on reservations.
For various reasons, we tend to use the term “Native Americans” these days, though in context a reader generally understands what is intended by the term “Indians” when the subject is North America.