How did peoples from such a geographically small part of Europe

>>2920061
>Great shipbuilding skills for early medieval and well defensible position for the times of Swedish empire

>1066 was irrelevant

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How did people from such a geographically small part of Asia become so powerful?

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>>2920061
>1066 was after all essentially a war between different groups of Scandinavians


Nope

>>2920141
So do you reckon it was a cultural or racial distinction between French and English?

>>2920231
Racial obviously, Anglisc are Germanic while French are their own race

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>>2921435
To back my claim look at the Bayeux Tapestry, English were mostly blond haired while French...

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>>2921484
were mostly black and brown haired

The guy on the horse with the eagle is William btw

>>2920061

They didn't. They entered history at a time when Europe was on its knees, they were /relatively/ powerful compared to the piss-weak successor states, but in absolute terms they were weaklings then just as they are now.

>>2920061
>Sardinia and Corsica often raided
>no viking raids ever recorded there or archaeological finds to support such a claim

>>2921509
Sweden is a moral superpower.