When did people stop believing in the old gods like Greek and Norse? Did the Vikings just wake up one morning and think ”this is bullshit”?
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There were crusades for the non Christian faith people in Europe. A few of them actually. During the middle of what you imagine when the crusades happened. A lot of Jewish people were slaughtered for little reason because the main target was the “Vikings/barbaric societies” in Modern day Estonia. They fought many bloody battles with the crusaders and won a few battles of their own. They eventually lost power to the crusaders when their own ally’s got sick of being raided by the crusaders and allied up with the crusaders and converted to Christianity.
It took a few decades and thousands if not a million or more people to die for their culture to disappear from the mainstream.
If you’re interested in this I would check out the Livonian Crusade. It’s really fascinating and I never knew that there were crusades that targeted more than just the classic “holy land”.
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