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Why didn't the Vikings colonize North America?

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The Vikings established settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D. They reached what is now Newfoundland , Canada in around 1000 AD .

The Vikings ' outposts were sparsely populated when they came into conflict with Indigenous Americans , prompting them to leave it all behind.

Other factors, including the arduous ocean route and the level of urbanization in both Europe and North America at the time, also played a role.

A 2010 paper estimated the Indigenous population of eastern North America around 1500 to be somewhere between 500,000 and 2.6 million people.

The distance between 'Vínland' and Greenland also posed a major problem for the Vikings .

Scandinavia was less urbanized in the Viking age than Europe was in the time after Columbus sailed.

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