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A few well-travelled Vikings interacted with the Christian world. They became wealthy tradesmen and had direct contacts with civilized Europe. They adopted the Christian belief system and were later influential in turning Scandinavia to Christianity. Once Christianity had spread, these violent societies became the most peaceful and secure places on the planet. And that peace has endured to this day. There was one teaching that they got right, and that was: "Thou shall love thy neighbor as yourself." Equal status and care for all citizens became the gold standard in all of Scandinavia. The Western world certainly did have a nasty, homegrown terrorist problem, but this problem was solved once and for all by simply changing gods. As it turns out, global terrorism is nothing new. We just have to dig into our history to understand the motivation behind it.