With the Romans, the technology they had, and what they were able to do and build with the knowledge and techniques available to them. Also just the way Roman civilisation worked was astonishing.
With the Vikings, the seamanship and navigation abilities they had.
If you came up to me and asked me to join you on a voyage across the north sea in a sailboat, with modern gps, life vests, flares, etc I would just laugh. Now doing it with a viking longboat and the stars to navigate? How could anyone sit down to row with such massive balls in the way?
Both the Romans and the Vikings are a fascinating topic though.
Totes agree. What’s your favourite thing about them?
With the Romans, the technology they had, and what they were able to do and build with the knowledge and techniques available to them. Also just the way Roman civilisation worked was astonishing.
With the Vikings, the seamanship and navigation abilities they had.
If you came up to me and asked me to join you on a voyage across the north sea in a sailboat, with modern gps, life vests, flares, etc I would just laugh. Now doing it with a viking longboat and the stars to navigate? How could anyone sit down to row with such massive balls in the way?
This is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down, but they are actually descendants of the same (hypothetical) prehistoric people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_society
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology