{"id":24028,"date":"2016-06-05T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T06:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=24028"},"modified":"2016-06-05T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T06:04:22","slug":"vikings-europe-north-america-asia-active-slave-trade-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=24028","title":{"rendered":"The Vikings Were in Europe, North America and Asia and were Active in the Slave Trade &#038; Other Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xIy7FoiaQY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vikings, Norse seafarers who left their homelands in Scandinavia to raid, trade, explore, and settle in wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic islands, from the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries, according to Nutshell.com<\/p>\n<p>Also many Vikings got rich off human trafficking. They would capture and enslave women and young men while pillaging Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Slavic settlements. These \u201cthralls,\u201d as they were known, were then sold in giant slave markets across Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Viking girls got hitched as young as 12 and had to mind the household while their husbands sailed off on adventures. Still, they had more freedom than other women of their era. As long as they weren\u2019t thralls, Viking women could inherit property, request a divorce and reclaim their dowries if their marriages ended, according to History.com<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Vikings click here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/history-lists\/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-vikings\">History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings, Norse seafarers who left their homelands in Scandinavia to raid, trade, explore, and settle in wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic islands, from the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries, according to Nutshell.com<br \/>\nAlso many Vikings got rich off human trafficking. They would capture and enslave women and young men while pillaging Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Slavic settlements. 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