History of GREENLAND - Land of Ice and Spirit - World's Largest Island On Traveling Through History, we take a look at the history of the island and country of GREENLAND, the land of "Ice and Spirit" and the world's largest island. The country has a very interesting history, with early settlers dating all the way back to 2,500 BCE all the way up to modern day, where the island country has never been more important and strategic to the United States and Europe because of its global location and bountiful resources. The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts. The first humans are thought to have arrived in Greenland around 2500 BCE. Their descendants apparently died out and were succeeded by several other groups migrating from continental North America. There has been no evidence discovered that Greenland was known to Norsemen until the ninth century CE, when Norse Icelandic explorers settled on its southwestern coast. The ancestors of the Greenlandic Inuit who live there today appear to have migrated there later, around the year 1200, from northwestern Greenland. While the Inuit survived in the icy world of the Little Ice Age, the early Norse settlements along the southwestern coast disappeared, leaving the Inuit as the only inhabitants of the island for several centuries. In 1721, aspiring to become a colonial power, Denmark-Norway sent a missionary expedition to Greenland with the stated aim of reinstating Christianity among descendants of the Norse Greenlanders who may have converted back to paganism. When the missionaries found no descendants of the Norse Greenlanders, they baptized the Inuit Greenlanders they found living there instead. Denmark-Norway then developed trading colonies along the coast and imposed a trade monopoly and other colonial privileges on the area. During World War II, when Nazi Germany invaded Denmark, Greenlanders became socially and economically less connected to Denmark and more connected to the United States. After the war, Denmark resumed control of Greenland and in 1953, converted its status from colony to overseas amt (county). Although Greenland is still a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, it has enjoyed home rule since 1979. In 1985, the island decided to leave the European Economic Community (EEC), which it had joined as a part of Denmark in 1973. We take a look at a video about the history of Greenland and a short video about the interesting facts about the island. Please like the video and subscribe to the channel and drop us a comment on an event in history that did not occur so we can add it to our next part in the series! 🔔Experience history like never before with Traveling Through History! 👉 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/14NeketECE/ 👉Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-5901708 ✅ For Business Inquiries: tppope@hotmail.com ============================= ✅ Other Videos You Might Be Interested In Watching: 👉 Sun Tzu - General - Military Strategist - Author of The Art of War https://youtu.be/dd1h8LfKVnw?si=JpSJt6MARJKbw8Gh 👉 Alexander the Great - Conqueror - King - Greatest General of All Time https://youtu.be/Prx1_glvF00?si=3R1im6g6MaNOKi4z 👉 25 Events in History That Did Not Happen - Part 1 https://youtu.be/rlrfwmiKABE?si=bTlzSCdW0CRiNZgt 👉 History of Christmas - Birth of Jesus Christ - The Holiday - 25 Interesting Facts https://youtu.be/3OcATPbVpP0?si=I0N4WSw7Ky8-nu4y 👉 History of Roman Gladiators - Movie Review of Gladiator 2 - 25 Interesting Facts https://youtu.be/a7q4SgveYdg?si=G7FDj44eBQLb1345 👉 TITANIC Disaster - The Tragedy, The Movie and Live Footage https://youtu.be/4B2bSFAL9eI?si=VMy2c5Nk-Ugp9A6T 👉 Hindenburg Disaster - Before and After the Tragedy and Live Footage https://youtu.be/_fFq46EFCy0?si=kmaWqaxYwDq50qYP 👉 Thomas Paine - Founder and Writer of Common Sense and American Crisis https://youtu.be/e7p-Willypo?si=V-Gx4BIyUXOmRs-k 👉 History of the First Thanksgiving - the Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact https://youtu.be/b0-S_uxX-nI?si=bOQFGMOZLqorVAbt 👉 JOAN OF ARC - Heroine of France in the Hundred Years War - 25 Interesting Facts https://youtu.be/KnODljuwqBw?si=tF_Ax8X5zMu7q9aP 👉 Napoleon Bonaparte - Emperor of France - Conqueror of Europe - 25 Interesting Facts https://youtu.be/kXqNV7hzUhg?si=cjDUdw9JK6QDOfRv 👉 Rutherford B Hayes and the Most Controversial Election in American History https://youtu.be/Ah9dzpLYip0?si=tOKc6aT3G7F3CUMs 👉Dead Sea Scrolls - Most Important Archaeological Find of the 20th Century https://youtu.be/JmDd7N-_bo0?si=Linw39vHt3wcX-Zv 👉 Secrets of the Freemasons - History of the Masonic Movement https://youtu.be/Z_7OaAAN3xo?si=hy4hb_tNQc84bo2_ 👉 Bill of Rights - Codifying Our Individual Freedoms - 25...
