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Now, I will ask you again, would you rather live in a civilization where you had a huge change of being poor and not free, or live in a civilization where everybody was treated equally and most everybody was free? I'm sure you guys all would rather live where everybody was treated equally and most people were free. As you just heard the Vikings were so much better and far more superior than Feudal Europe because of our technology, stable food supply, and religion.

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The Vikings were pagan and worshipped the god Odin and 12 others.

Odin was the god of poetry, secret wisdom and magic; the patron of warriors and aristocrats; and the creator of the human race, and he gave life and breath to Ask and Embla, the first man and woman, who he made from tree trunks. Odin had Woden, the Vikings Wednesday, named after him.

The Viking Gods lived in a heaven called Asgard. The Vikings believed that if they lose their good fortune, they wouldn't go to Asgard or when they died fighting, they would go to Asgard.

The Vikings had a far better religion than Feudal Europe because the Vikings had a very great religion.

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The Vikings were great traders. The North, Britain, and Mediterranean provided lots of trade for the Vikings.

The Vikings were also amazing at farming and lots of there men were farmers. They were able to grow lots of vegetables, oat, barley, etc.

The Vikings didn’t have to depend on just one way of food and this was good because if one way failed, they could still get food.

The Vikings had a better food supply than Feudal Europe because the Vikings didn’t make all of their poor people farm.

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Would you rather live in a civilization where you had a huge change of being poor and not free, or live in a civilization where everybody was treated equally and most everybody was free? The Vikings had a better civilization than Feudal Europe because Feudal Europe made all their peasants and serfs did all of the hard work. While the Vikings had wonderful technology, a very stable food supply, and good religion with lots of beliefs. Feudal Europe was nowhere close to the Vikings, when it came to who had a better civilization.

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In all of your debates, from the very first round on, all you have mentioned about Viking technology was their warships and weapon-making. Isn't this because they had no great technology other than these things?

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As you have seen today, Feudal Europe is far superior to the Vikings because Feudal Europe impacts our own culture to this very day. Our own form of government and social system is similar to theirs. Their technological advancements helped all societies that followed, including our own, with things like the printing press, clocks, and plows. Look around you? What do you see that was given to us by the Vikings? Nothing. So, ask yourself: would you rather vote for a great society like Feudal Europe, or would you rather vote for a bunch of brutes who are most known today for being the worst football team in the NFC North?

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Feudal Europe had tons of lasting technologies that are still influential today, like the 3 crop rotation system, the horse harness, and the plow. All of these are still used in farming today. Also the clock and compass were invented during this time period and still are critical today. The printing press, invented by the german Johannes Gutenberg, changed the world forever with the mass production of book to the people. This enable books to be made very cheaply, so everyone could have access to them. Finally there were many authors that wrote many famous poems and stories that read and talked about today.

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You said we had a system much like slavery ,but didn't the Vikings actually take a big part in slave trade from which they took conquered people and made them slaves?

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Although it is true that peasants and surfs had to work very hard and life was not simple for them, if they worked hard they would receive food, shelter, and protection. This isn't very far off from out own culture today, where the lower and middle classes work very hard, but have food, shelter, and protection. If you're saying Feudal Europe is corrupt, you are basically saying that our society today is corrupt because they are so similar. Also, what is wrong in having to work hard for what you get.

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Today's opponent, the Vikings, are much like the brutal Mongols that we beat on Monday. They both rose to power quickly through violent conquests of innocent victims, but they didn't last long because they had no real culture. So, I ask you: would you rather be a member of Feudal Europe, an amazing, forward-thinking society that influenced our own culture and Europe's cultures to this very day, or would you rather be a pillaging, marauding Viking, a member of a group who is only known for its blood-thirsty colonizing and savage warfare? Feudal Europe gave the world the first clocks and the three crop rotation system. It gave the world great literature that we still read today, like Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." It gave the world advancements in farming like the improved horse harness and plow. Most importantly, it gave the world one of the improvement technological developments ever in history: Gutenberg's moveable type the printing press that made information available to all people for the first time in history. All of these things made Feudal Europe a GREAT CULTURE and impacted the world we live in today. But, the Vikings' only contributions were in the area of warfare and ships to help them in war. Nothing that they did or made has influenced our own world today. Nothing. This one isn't even close - Feudal Europe is far superior to the Vikings.

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The vikings had huge warships that were used for many things, what lasting technology did feudal europe have?

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1. If you think killing other people to get food and money was bad, than why do you think that having about half of your people stuck in pretty much slave labor ok. We even read a book about this little serf boy who's life stinks, and he has to work from early in the morning to late at night.

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Although our people did kill others and take their food and money,

we still were able to get food on our own by farming crops.

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Government -

The system of government that was in use during the Middle Ages was called Feudalsim.

Kings would give land the Lords in exchange for knights to fight in the Kings army.

The Peasants and Surfs who lived on a fief would farm to provide the higher classes and themselves with food (Samurai and Knights: Were the Similarities Greater than the Differences).

Technology -

At the end of the Feudal European era, there was one of the most important technological inventions ever when Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press with moveable type in Germany around 1439. For the first time ever, working class people had access to literature and information. This changed the world forever because the people had access to information for the first time (The Printing Press). "The printing press certainly initiated an 'information revolution' on par with the Internet today. Printing could and did spread new ideas quickly and with greater impact." (The Printing Press).

There were more amazing technological advancements than I can possibly name. 2 of the most important were the compass and the clock. Others developments were horseshoes, gunpowder, and stirrups (http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/pabacker/history/middle.htm).

The advancements of the plow and horse harness made it easier for them to farm and allowed them to produce more food. Also, farmers changed from a 2 crop rotation to a 3 crop rotation which allowed farmers to increase production of crops (http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/).

Writing and Communication -

Stories were not written down before Feudal European times. They were simply passed down in oral form with the telling of stories by bards, or story tellers, mainly English, Welsh, and Irish bards. There were many famous stories told by bards were Epic poems, one being the story of King Arthur

In Feudal Europe, stories were first written down in English. Many of these authors are still famous and influential today, such as Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400), John Gower (1325 - 1408), and Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" is very influential to our own literature today. It is a collection of more than 20 short stories about life during Feudal European times. Monmouth wrote "The History of the Kings of Britain" in 1136.