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GCSE History · key term
Goods carried by a ship or another form of transport.
Used by OCR
Paper 3
Revise: Ships and tradeA vessel carrying goods needed cargo space; a vessel carrying warriors benefited from speed. Over the Viking Age, these needs led to increasingly specialised designs. The long, narrow longships of the later Viking Age were fast troop-carriers but had limited room for cargo and provisions.
Keep the chronology clear: the highly specialised longships and large cargo ships of the later Viking Age should not all be treated as vessels already in use around 750.
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