Name: Professor: Course Class: Date of Submission: Ways in Which the Scandinavian Vikings Changed Western Civilization Introduction The Viking age lasted from about 800 AD to 1100 AD. The Viking culture has had lasting effects on the trade, society, technology and art of every population that the Vikings encountered. Part of the reason why their contact with the western civilization has endured is because the Vikings were skilled at assimilating into the populations that they came into contact with. While the popular culture has tended to view them as barbarian raiders until recent times, the Vikings were primarily skilled explorers and traders who opened up a lot of new commerce routes and discovered new lands as well during their relatively brief but important reign of the early...