HSTY1002 Final: Notes for AOE final exam
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A band of states or nations all ruled by one powerhouse. An extensive group of states ruled by a single monarch or powerful sovereign or government. Usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom ruled by a single sovereign > macquarie dictionary but the definition has been redefined and varied over time and over different civilisations. Important as it described states that were identified as belonging to what we describe as an empire. Estimated to be around for 1200 yrs from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the. Difficult to put into an empire" due to the fact that the viking age" was not something that the people of the time were aware they were living in. It was dubbed viking age" hundreds of years later. There was no one group called vikings as for example; the english vikings were different to the icelandic vikings. Thus the title of viking" refers more to a type of.
