Born Then1200–1300
Life during the Thule migration across the Arctic
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
Around 1200 to 1300 the Thule people, ancestors of today's Inuit, spread from Alaska across Arctic Canada to Greenland in a few generations. They hunted whales from skin boats and used dog sleds. They replaced the earlier Dorset people.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from archaeology.
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