The island of Greenland tends to be forgotten in the scheme of the world stage yet
The island has had a rather interesting history
And in this video we will be looking at that history
The prehistory of Greenland was largely of paleo eskimo cultures Mike Greene from the northern America
Because of Greenland's remoteness and climate survival there was difficult over the course of centuries
One culture succeeded another as groups died out and were replaced
The earliest known culture in Greenland is a Sukkot culture
Which is still the longest lasting group to have lived on Greenland
The sukuk lived in tandem with the independence one culture in northern Greenland named after independence fjord
the Dorset culture appears around 500 BCE and lasts around
1500 years while their origins aren't well known is believed by some of the dorsum replaces
Sukuk or many of the previous existing groups on the island
But the like a bow and arrow
technology as well as drill technology within the Dorset is a big sign that they have not come from these groups as both forms of
Technology were widely adopted by previous Greenlandic cultures by the turn of the millennium
Greenland has largely seemed to have been uninhabited up until the 8th century when late Dorset people crossed over who last until the 14th century
Europeans likely first became aware of England's existence when Gunn von aalverson was blown off course by a storm and sites of islands off of
Greenland the day of this sign is exactly known as only mention is inland AMA an
extensive telling of the settlement of Iceland from the time
Eric the Red
Explored Greenland while in exile and came back to Iceland to get settlers named lowland Greenland to encourage
settlement the sagas make mentioned that 25 ships left Iceland with Erik in
1985 and then only 14 of them survived safely in Greenland
These settlements established two or three settlements marked as the Eastern Western and the middle settlements
Even though the middle settlement is sometimes combined with the eastern one
The population was around two to nine thousand with more modern estimates figuring on the lower end
The economy was largely built around pasture farming mixed with hunting and fishing
The settlements traded ivory from Wohlers tusks with Europe as well as expert in rope sheep steel wool and hides exchange for money
Material such in the way of iron tools void, which was lodged from Norway Iceland Labrador food another important material
Trade ships would come once every few months
stain import over the winter if the need arises in the mid 12 hundreds all
Ships had to go from Greenland to Norway directly bypassed in Iceland
This caused some issues as many of the ships would be lost in transit and then become nearly impossible. Once the little ice age came
Starting the following century
by
1350 the Westar Salman had been
Abandoned both by the result of the increasingly harsh winter as well as hostile contact with the native Thule people
After 1408 very few written mentions of the North's remained. The last reported ship to reach Greenland was a private ship house blown off-course
Reaching Greenland in 1406 and appearing in 1410 was the last news the burning at the stake of a condemned which?
corresponds from Pope Nicholas offif in 1448
Called for a few priests and a bishop to be sent to Greenland from Iceland
the last minute of any Norse is from a German ship that landed in the Eastern settlement in the
1540s and found the body of a Norse man at dress up in need of clothing for nearly three centuries
No attempts to reach doubtless contact or settle in Greenland seem to have been taken place
the area was largely explored in search of the Northwest Passage, but all of them ended in failure in
1721 a Norwegian missionary Hans egg day received a Royal Charter from King Frederick that 4th
Branton and brown authority over Greenland and commissioned them to seek out the Norse colony and spread the Reformation among its inhabitants
Hans brought three boats and established hoped colony on the now bouncing and of Kenwick
He went bankrupt seven years later and keen federic sent a few dozen soldiers and convicts to aid in the colonial effort
They established thought that the modern-day capital of nuke in 1728
various merchants were granted monopolies over Greenlandic trade and armed support to protect any settlements throughout the
1750s over a dozen settlements were established in Greenland largely around the southern coast
This was combined with Moravian missionaries that arrived in 1733 and started to convert the native population
They were so successful that by 1750 a number of missions have been established all along the southern end of the island
with the last being established in
1864 Arctic exploration placed claims of Danish sovereignty over Greenland and out under the principle of terra nullius
Huge tracts of territory were available to other nations
Denmark respond to this by solely Kryon agreements recognizing sovereignty to all of Greenland from various countries
Norway eventually protested this and claimed Erich the Reds land in Asia and Greenland during
1931 seeing that only no regional whalers and trapper seized land the court of international
Justice ruled against Norway two years later the fall of Denmark in early 1940 increased the power and importance of the Greenlandic
governors, but by the following year
The I have had laws become an American protectorate
following the war the north and south colonies of the islands united acting under one governorship in
1953 Greenland's colonial status was ended and news made integral part of the Kingdom of Denmark gained Home Rule in
1979 in
2009 all matters of in defence and foreign policy were transferred to the regional Parliament