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    The Collapse of The Greenland Norse: Ow and Why The Greenland Norse Failed To Succeed Y: AJ, Lewis, Taylor, &ha

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    The Greenland Norse civilization collapsed due to a combination of environmental and climatic factors. They overexploited natural resources through deforestation and overgrazing. Meanwhile, the climate began to cool during the Little Ice Age, worsening their situation. Their trade routes were cut off by sea ice, and conflicts with the Inuit people prevented cooperation. Within a few centuries, the Norse settlements in Greenland disappeared.

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    The Greenland Norse civilization collapsed due to a combination of environmental and climatic factors. They overexploited natural resources through deforestation and overgrazing. Meanwhile, the climate began to cool during the Little Ice Age, worsening their situation. Their trade routes were cut off by sea ice, and conflicts with the Inuit people prevented cooperation. Within a few centuries, the Norse settlements in Greenland disappeared.

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    The Greenland Norse civilization collapsed due to a combination of environmental and climatic factors. They overexploited natural resources through deforestation and overgrazing. Meanwhile, the climate began to cool during the Little Ice Age, worsening their situation. Their trade routes were cut off by sea ice, and conflicts with the Inuit people prevented cooperation. Within a few centuries, the Norse settlements in Greenland disappeared.

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    The Collapse of the Greenland

    Norse

    How and why the Greenland Norse


    failed to succeed

    By: AJ, Lewis, Taylor, &Ha


    Greenland
    •Biggest island in the world

    •Whole island is 2,175,600 km

    •Only 383,600 km is ice free


    Climate

    • Temperatures constantly changing

    • The warmest it gets is around 50


    Degrees Fahrenheit and that’s
    only in certain places during the
    summer months

    • Lots of ice
    The Damage to the Environment
    • Destroyed natural vegetation
    • Deforested the area
    • Destroyed the usefulness of the
    land by cutting turf for housing
    • Overgrazing prevented regeneration
    of trees
    Inuit
    • Expanded eastward across Canada and entered NW
    Greenland over the course of nearly 4,000 years
    before the Norse arrived.

    • There predecessors were a culture called the Dorset


    People Which were very similar except for there
    hunting techniques
    Climate change
    • While they were destroying the natural resources,
    the climate began to change
    • 1300’s to 1400’s began what is known as “little ice
    age”
    • This worsened the problems that the Norse were
    already encountering
    • This also froze up trade routes by sea
    Hunting
    • Big difference that set apart the
    Inuit and the Dorset and Norse
    people is the way they hunted.
    • The Inuit used more advanced
    methods including Using
    Dogsleds and bows and arrows(
    Dorset didn’t have bows and
    Arrows.)
    • They also hunted whales which
    neither the Norse or the Dorset
    attempted.
    • Hunting whales provided food for
    the large settlements the Inuit
    lived in.
    Inuit
    • Rather than having the Inuit as trading
    partners they were at war with them
    • The Inuit are known to have staged attacks on
    the settlement, which undoubtedly did not
    help things

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