Voyages of Exploration c. 800 CE

Caption

Voyages of Exploration c. 800 CE

Summary

This map shows the Viking explorations to Scandinavia, Greenland and Canada around 800 CE.

===Inset===
Caption: Viking Trade and Raids

This map c. 800 CE shows the Viking trading and raiding routes in Europe and western Asia, reaching as far as Italy and Baghdad, in the Abbasid empire.

Source

Oxford Atlas of World History, Oxford University Press, 1999. General Editor Patrick K. O’Brien. (p. 78)

Copyright

Map copyright © Philip’s, a division of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
Source: Philip’s Atlas of World History

Used under license from Octopus Publishing Group.

Series

This map is one in a series of maps selected from the Oxford Atlas of World History.

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