ScienceRocks
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You mean there were only 50,000 vikings at that time?
Eastern Settlement - Norse Settlement of Greenland
Eventually, the Eastern Settlement grew to ~200-500 (estimates vary) farmsteads, an Augustinian monastery, a Benedictine convent and 12 parish churches, accounting for perhaps as many as 4000-5000 individuals. Norsemen in Greenland were primarily farmers, raising cattle, sheep and goats, but supplementing that regimen with local marine and terrestrial fauna, trading polar bear fur, narwhal ivory and falcons for grain and metals from Iceland and eventually Norway. Although there were recorded attempts to grow barley, they were never successful.
There is towns and cities within Greenland today with them wanting their own control over their country? As of 2010 there is 56 thousand people in Greenland. That proves that it is as warm or warmer then it was in the mid evil?
No it doesn't. Greenland is allready largely self governing (though still a posession of Denmark). In fact they pulled out of the EU almost from the beginning. The newest population (Thule Culture) only moved back to Greenland after the end of the Little Ice Age.
People lived there in the mid evil warm period and people can live there today. Both periods are warm enough for people to survive and make their lifes in Greenland. Must be much a like in the climate.
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