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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 08:27 AM
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13. Bigger populations and more willing to take the risk. nt
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  -Why didn’t the Scandinavian countries get into colonizing the “New World?” raccoon  Feb-11-10 08:05 AM   #0 
  - My theory is they were too busy screwing.  saltpoint   Feb-11-10 08:07 AM   #1 
  - It's not because they were holy and righteous.  Zynx   Feb-11-10 08:10 AM   #2 
  - Bigger populations and more willing to take the risk. nt  Captain Hilts   Feb-11-10 08:27 AM   #13 
  - And the Vikings had already been there, done them  havocmom   Feb-11-10 08:32 AM   #14 
  - THe supposed sexual prowess of these folks notwithstanding, they did not have large populations  AngryAmish   Feb-11-10 08:11 AM   #3 
  - Additionally, they had other interests that were closer to home.  Zynx   Feb-11-10 08:13 AM   #4 
  - Look east  izquierdista   Feb-11-10 08:14 AM   #5 
  - uhh, try a little research  Donnachaidh   Feb-11-10 08:15 AM   #6 
  - There were settlements in Greenland and Labrador.  hobbit709   Feb-11-10 08:16 AM   #7 
  - Too busy raping central Europeans  Parmenion   Feb-11-10 08:17 AM   #8 
  - Sweden Colonized Deleware...  KharmaTrain   Feb-11-10 08:23 AM   #9 
  - "their explorations a few centuries earlier"  tanyev   Feb-11-10 08:23 AM   #10 
  - The Swedes did colonize in America  NWHarkness   Feb-11-10 08:25 AM   #11 
  - A couple of reasons. First, they didn't feel compelled to export their puritans and criminals. Also  Captain Hilts   Feb-11-10 08:27 AM   #12 
  - They had a big colony. It is called Russia.  AngryAmish   Feb-11-10 08:35 AM   #15 
  - Combine the points made by the above posters  JoDog   Feb-11-10 08:37 AM   #16 
  - Most of the rest of Europe  customerserviceguy   Feb-11-10 08:57 AM   #17 
  - Because they knew it was a trainwreck waiting to happen.  Javaman   Feb-11-10 09:11 AM   #18 
  - Let's be nice when we talk about my ancestors.....  noel711   Feb-11-10 09:35 AM   #19 
  - The Viking period was during a warm climate, colonization of America during little ice age  FarCenter   Feb-11-10 11:03 AM   #20 
 

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