Viking Era – Page 6 – Ancient Finances

February 1, 2018Viking Era

More background on the Viking Age

I will write a number of post on some of the more interesting items I learned from Robert Ferguson in his book […]

January 31, 2018Alexander the Great, comparison of living standards, Roman Empire, Viking Era

Abundance of food today compared with routine scarcity of food earlier than 150 years ago.

For most of history, one of the main challenges was getting enough food to eat. Keeping your family alive through the winter […]

January 30, 2018Viking Era

More details on the Skuldelev ships

Chapter 8 of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, discusses Ships and Seamanship, by Jan Bill. Chapter has a to-scale sketch […]

January 29, 2018Alexander the Great, Middle Ages, Roman Empire, Viking Era

Most of the improvement in life expectancy in the last 10,000 years has taken place in the last 100 years.

Johan Norberg describes the tremendous progress in the last several hundred years in so many areas: life expectancy, health, sanitation, liberty, education, […]

January 26, 2018January 30, 2018Viking Era

Thoughts on the legacy of the Vikings and economic development

This blog focuses on the finances of ancient times, with minimal focus on the overall society and culture. Perspectives of the Vikings […]

January 24, 2018Viking Era

More data points on payments to Vikings

For some specific data points on hostage payments, tributes, and bribes paid to the Vikings, check out Janet Nelson’s chapter 2, The […]

January 22, 2018Middle Ages, Roman Empire, Viking Era

Gross World Product over last 27,000 years

Gross World Product, according to Wikipedia is the combined gross national product of all the countries in the world. Because imports and exports balance exactly when considering […]

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018Middle Ages, Roman Empire, Viking Era

Growth in world population

Our World in Data, the web site of Max Roser, visualizes data in amazing ways. Check out this graph of world population: […]

January 19, 2018January 18, 2018Viking Era

Fragments of information on the count of ships in Viking raiding parties

Some fragmented counts on the size of Viking raids are provided on page 39 of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, edited […]

January 15, 2018January 1, 2018Viking Era

Construction time of one longhouse and perimeter of winter camp in Viking Era

The estimated construction time of one longhouse and the protective moat and wall around a winter camp is provided by Kim Hjardar […]

Ancient Finances

Exploring finances in times of the Viking Age, Roman Empire, and Alexander the Great.

Category: Viking Era