Arctic Empires

In the olden days, the Vikings ruled the north, raiding the kingdoms of Europe and colonizing the North Atlantic, as far as Greenland, Norway, Russia and even Newfoundland. But their reign was cut short when a change in the climate, now called the Little Ice Age, made crossing the North Atlantic impossible. In this world, Eric the Red, the famous Norse explorer who discovered Greenland, decided to go not west but east, into the land of Siberia. Here, he landed at Svalbard and made it a Viking colony. His fleet soon established a permanent Russian colony in Svalbard and Russia, and weathered out the Little Ice Age in their towns and cities. When the weather recovered, they found that they were the last Vikings.