History CAM

  Marking History - Norse Expansion: Raid to Trade Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I hope you all enjoyed my introduction post and as promised, I am back with my first piece. As previously mentioned, this blog will feature numerous themes to keep things exciting, and the first is marking history. We all know human history is really split into 3 broad parts – ancient, medieval, and modern. For those of you who are nerdier, you will have heard of the splits between early medieval and late medieval and early modern and modern.   No worries if not though as information is what I am here to provide! But yes, there are already established time periods out there, some of which I disagree with but we will get to that another time (I am not joking by the way, I already have that theme planned out). To avoid literally getting ahead of ourselves in terms of moving onto further along periods before covering prior ones, this article will be focused within the early medieval period, spa...

What history  CAM will be all about   My name is Cameron Elliot I am delighted to welcome you to my blog:  history CAM. Once I left university I found myself at a loose end, unable to stimulate myself now that I no longer had education. I needed an outlet to express my passion as containing it was not an option - then I stumbled across the idea to start writing a blog as I can produce my historical thoughts in a way hopefully enjoyable and informative for everyone as being aware of the past and its lessons is so crucial to benefit the future.  Ever since I was a young boy, history has been my whole life regarding interests with the fascination of there existing a whole world before my own time and the time of everyone alive and in near memory. Also how these events going back as far as thousands of years all developed and progressed to end up where we are now.  But yes, that is my background and hopefully it shows you my strong desire to further your interests ...