The location of Fort Ross is almost at the deepest point of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the people living here are too far away from Svealand, the main activity area of the Siyan people.
Geographical isolation has had a great impact. They all have common ancestors. Since the Ross tribe decided to move north nearly a hundred years ago, the people of Svealand have gradually forgotten that they are in the far north. There is also a group of brothers.
Only the large-scale longships brought from the northern seas once or twice a year can prove to ordinary people in Svealand that the north does have its own kindred, and they are quite powerful.
Isn’t it cold enough in Svealand? Could it be that besides the ice and snow, there is something else in the north that has great appeal, forcing some of the same people to insist on going north? !
The answer is yes!
That’s fur! Lots of animal pelts!
Stockholm, the future major city in Scandinavia, already had its initial prototype in the ninth century AD.
The water of Lake Malaren flows into the Gulf of Bothnia, and some wandering tribes realized that this area had inherent advantages for developing trade. Because large lakes are conducive to shipping, the large number of islands at the mouths of rivers can easily be transformed into ports.
The residents who settled in this area formed a residential community, and they were called Melalen people by other ethnic groups.
But in the ninth century, the strongest player on the Baltic Sea was Denmark. The powerful Danish fleet took control of the island of Gotland and also occupied the grazing highlands south of Svealand.
The Siwea Tribe Alliance continues to grow and develop in the Svealand Plains. However, with their almost primitive productivity, no matter how large the land area is, it will soon reach a bottleneck.
There is only one development path before the tribal alliance - to expand the living space.
They resented that the Danes had taken the lead in occupying pastures that could have been theirs for grazing and arable land that could be used to grow wheat.
They also hate Gotland being occupied by the Danes even more, because the loss of this island means that the Danes have basically locked up the possibility of the Siyans going south.
Although it is impossible for the Danes to guarantee that they will not miss any longship in the northern gulf, a battle is bound to occur in any encounter.
According to the cultural tradition of the Siweiya Tribal Alliance, young men need to leave their families and develop their own homes near their own tribe.
When an adult man marries a wife, he will not hesitate to start a big family. In order to feed their large population, the limited land was obviously not enough. Only by manipulating a long boat and plundering under the leadership of the leader could the family survive the winter without starving to death.
Over the centuries, Svealand's resources have become increasingly scarce.
What is even worse is that they are also faced with the severe development problem of increasingly tight local resources, and they also think of solving the problem through robbery. The Siiya tribe, the predecessor of the Danes and Swedes,Alliance, the level of the enemies they face is much different.
Since the Danes started their plunder of Britain, the problem of hunger has basically been solved because they obtained a large supply of food from the "Island of Plenty".
Since all those involved in the plunder were young men eager for wealth, they forcibly abducted British Anglo women based entirely on instinct.
The Danes and the Angles are also close relatives of each other.
More food and more exotic women entered Danish society, and the population of Jutland expanded rapidly.
In ancient times, population was the best productivity. Even a child was an indispensable productivity for the family.
More and more Danes need more and more land for farming and grazing.
The main force of the Danes firmly controls the only exit from the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. The narrowest point of the Oresund Strait is only five kilometers, which also makes it easy for the Danes to land in Scandina on the other side. Via Peninsula, entering the Götland Oberland.
The Danes and Sewians encountered each other, and conflicts ensued over competition for pasture for grazing.
One hundred years is long enough for two ethnic groups with exactly the same language to evolve into two tribal groups full of conflicts.
The Danes were indeed more advanced than the Siewians, because they had to have various relationships with the Frankish kingdom, a string of small kingdoms in Britain, and even a completely different group of Wends.
Many cultural concepts from the hinterland of the European continent entered Jutland, making some tribal leaders no longer willing to be leaders.
They learned that the Frankish Kingdom, which was so huge that it was incomprehensible, was only a small existence at first. Because of the leader's bravery and resourcefulness, the Franks annexed small tribes one after another and eventually became a giant.
The Danes of this era have already felt the power of the Franks, because the Wende people bordering their activity areas have surrendered to the Frankish Kingdom.
Those Wende people were the Slavic ethnic group that lived in eastern Germany in later generations. They were one of the ancestors of the Poles. Because they were conquered by the Frankish Kingdom, they gave up their traditional Slavic beliefs, all converted to the Holy See, and accepted Frankish rule.
How to be as powerful as the Franks?
First, let your tribe become the leader of the alliance, then make your tribe have unshakable strength, and finally the leader will become the real king.
Even if the Franks were strong, the Danes never gave up their attempt to expand southward. However, due to the strong counterattack of the Franks, the Danish offensive was finally contained.
Many tribal leaders who are full of ideas for the future realize that only a fragmented ethnic group can unite to compete with the Franks.
The south is warmer and the land there is easier to farm. And the best land is inIn Britain, the locals are also very powerful.
If you want to obtain greater benefits, your own strength is still not enough at this stage, so you can only implement sneak attacks and plunder. Indeed, no farmers are willing to settle down and develop farms in the plundered areas.
Except in the Jotaland region.
Two tribal alliances are fighting over the ownership of the vast Jotaland region.
They are all Vikings! They are good at resolving conflicts through fighting! Moreover, the hungry bellies of the farmers and herdsmen who have entered this area are forcing their brains to attack another group of people who will rob their homes.
Even if the other party speaks the exact same language as you, as long as they are not your own tribe or allies, they are sworn enemies.
The battle began as early as the beginning of the eighth century AD. For nearly a hundred years, both sides of the battle grew in strength.
Obviously, it is here that the Danes have grown most significantly, not just in terms of population, but also in terms of their warfare technology. They began to learn horse galloping from the Franks, and unique bow and arrow techniques from the Britons.
Today's Danes are still elementary students, and they have only just used these two important magic weapons that affected ancient warfare, but their descendants will surely restore the Viking soul of their ancestors on horseback.
In the vast Yotalan, small-scale conflicts between farmers belonging to different tribal alliances occur frequently, and wars involving hundreds of people on land and at sea also occur from time to time.
Because of the cultural tradition shared by the Vikings, if someone in the family is killed in battle, his brothers and heirs have the obligation to avenge him.
This has almost entered an infinite loop, and it has also led to small-scale wars inevitably leading to strategic-level decisive battles.
Who is the master of Jotaland? !