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The player's goal in Vikings is to conquer other territories, playing against AI opponents whose goal is the same. Combat in Vikings is not depicted on-screen, rather the player is given the odds of success based upon their circumstances (such as number of troops/morale), from which they may make a decision to leave or fight.
c. 1000: Erik the Red and Leif Ericson, Viking navigators, discovered and settled Greenland, Helluland (possibly Baffin Island), Markland (now called Labrador), and Vinland (now called Newfoundland). The Greenland colony lasted until the 15th century. c. 1350: The Norse Western Settlement in Greenland was abandoned.
Although the idea of Norse voyages to, and a colony in, North America was discussed by Swiss scholar Paul Henri Mallet in his book Northern Antiquities (English translation 1770), [92] the sagas first gained widespread attention in 1837 when the Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn revived the idea of a Viking presence in North America. [93]
Set in the Viking Age: Kingdoms of England II: Vikings, Fields of Conquest: 1992: 793 – 1066: Set in the Viking Age: Hammer of the Gods: 1994: 793 – 1066: Set in the Viking Age: Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest: 1996: 793 – 1066: Set in the Viking Age: Saga: Rage of the Vikings: 1998: 793 – 1066: Set in the Viking Age: Rune ...
European powers employed sailors and geographers to map and explore North America with the goal of economic, religious and military expansion. The combative and rapid nature of this exploration is the result of a series of countering actions by neighboring European nations to ensure no single country had garnered enough wealth and power from ...
1515: Conquest of Cuba completed; 1517: Francisco Hernández de Córdoba lands on the Yucatán Peninsula; 1519: Founding of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz ; 1519: Álvarez de Pineda explores the Gulf Coast of the United States; 1519: Founding of Panama City by Pedro Arias Dávila; 1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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