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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7757610" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>There are areas in Europe that were decidedly like this. </p><p></p><p>When the Vikings were at their peak (8th - 10th Centuries), the Atlantic and Baltic coasts and even the rivers of Russia were raided heavily by the Vikings. Of course, the old cycle of raiders from the steppe was key to much of Late Antiquity (Huns) and the Middle Ages (Mongols), with many examples in between. The Reconquista in Spain is another example. The Borderlands between England and Scotland were notorious, too, from the 14th to 17th Centuries. The borderland in Eastern Europe between Christendom and the Ottomans was also pretty heavily raided---the Siege of Vienna in 1683 was the last really big push by the Ottomans and it nearly took Vienna. There were lots of raiders from the Barbary Coast, French pirates from Dunkirk that raided the English coast, the Chevauchee during the Hundred Years' War. Europe had plenty of borderlands, internal frontiers, and areas of lawlessness. Whether current European museums highlight this or not, it's a key part of European history and identity and much of the American colonial culture is a transplanted mixture of the Reconquista and English Borderlands.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7757610, member: 6873517"] There are areas in Europe that were decidedly like this. When the Vikings were at their peak (8th - 10th Centuries), the Atlantic and Baltic coasts and even the rivers of Russia were raided heavily by the Vikings. Of course, the old cycle of raiders from the steppe was key to much of Late Antiquity (Huns) and the Middle Ages (Mongols), with many examples in between. The Reconquista in Spain is another example. The Borderlands between England and Scotland were notorious, too, from the 14th to 17th Centuries. The borderland in Eastern Europe between Christendom and the Ottomans was also pretty heavily raided---the Siege of Vienna in 1683 was the last really big push by the Ottomans and it nearly took Vienna. There were lots of raiders from the Barbary Coast, French pirates from Dunkirk that raided the English coast, the Chevauchee during the Hundred Years' War. Europe had plenty of borderlands, internal frontiers, and areas of lawlessness. Whether current European museums highlight this or not, it's a key part of European history and identity and much of the American colonial culture is a transplanted mixture of the Reconquista and English Borderlands. [/QUOTE]
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