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In a sense yes; Mongols spread their civilisation far and wide and still have massive modern day impact. Vikings never truly held onto any land beyond their homeland; and in most nations history are seen as a temporary pest. Compare Viking expansion to say Slavic expansion, it's a pretty easy answer how successful the vikings truly were.
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Is that a fair comparison? Outside of a few luminaries, like Canute, most Vikings/Norsemen were not interested in building Empires. They were interested in 1. Finding new farmland to settle and 2. Raiding and finding loot. Others saw fighting as a religious exercise. Others loved to fight, and became Mercenaries.
Genghis Khan actually wanted to build an empire, so they went about administering things differently.
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Well, yeah. That's why it's so strange to me that vikings get so much credit for all kinds of seminal accomplishments while the Mongols are far more likely to be vilified these days, despite the Mongols' achievements being infinitely greater. I've even seen a German documentary called "The Founders of Europe" where vikings are put on the same level as Greeks and Romans in defining European culture as we know it today.
'The fiercest fighting zone of nationality is Macedonia, and here the races so shade into one another that it was possible for the Bulgarian professors to find only seven hundred Serbians, where the Serbian statisticians found over two million and the Greek enumerators no Serbians at all.'
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'The fiercest fighting zone of nationality is Macedonia, and here the races so shade into one another that it was possible for the Bulgarian professors to find only seven hundred Serbians, where the Serbian statisticians found over two million and the Greek enumerators no Serbians at all.'
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Maybe people don't worship vikings here but you can't deny their overwhelming prevalence in pop culture. Vikings are probably among the most frequently LARPed historical groups along with the Romans. Not sure how I "worship the Mongols" when all I said was the historically undisputed fact that they had an extremely expansive empire.
'The fiercest fighting zone of nationality is Macedonia, and here the races so shade into one another that it was possible for the Bulgarian professors to find only seven hundred Serbians, where the Serbian statisticians found over two million and the Greek enumerators no Serbians at all.'
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