this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)
Comradeship // Freechat
2168 readers
17 users here now
Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
eh, i think the roots of european behavior lie more in the way they consciously modelled themselves after the roman empire. the hypocrisy (rome never starts aggressive wars you see, they just need to defend the republic by going halfway across the world to burn everything down) , the slavery, the elite sucking up all the wealth, the sense of superiority over others (rome's version wasnt our modern racial hierarchy, but it was something in the same genre), etc...
the vikings were opportunistic pirates, sure, but mainly they were traders. and they didnt leave much of an institutional imprint.