People have been on the move since before historical records began, whether fleeing from their enemies or looking for new land to settle. Around 1600 BC a great famine in Canaan drove the Israelites and Polynesians in canoes voyaged thousands of miles across the oceans. Humans, it seems, are natural wanderers.
Viking Expansion
Most people think of the Vikings as seaborne raiders whose longships brought terror to European shores. They also made epic voyages to Iceland, Greenland and North America, and travelled south into Russia, and east to Constantinople. They were looking for new lands to settle and people to trade with.
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