Swedish History

This will be my last post and this one will be about the Swedish history.

In Sweden, we have a lot of petroglyphs, the oldest of them was found in Jämtland and it was dating from 5000 BC!

The petroglyphs was made by people in the stone-age and they depict elk, reindeer, bears and seals. Also they’ve found petroglyphs that used a sexual theme and they were dating from 800-500 BC.

The vikings plays a huge part in Swedish history. They were known as savages that raided and ravaged Europe as they stole valuable things from everyone around Europe. The vikings lived in year 800-1500.

In 1523 Gustav Vasa was fighting for an independent Sweden. During the 17th century, after winning against Denmark, Russia and Poland, Sweden-Finland emerged as a great power by taking direct control of the Baltic region. The Baltic region was Europe’s main source of grain, iron, copper, timber, tar, hemp and furs.

This is what I know about the Swedish culture and I hope you readers learned something about our culture.