A cold country that lays in Eastern Scandinavia the people in Finnalnd are Nordic and some
viking backgrounds.The earliest traces of human habitation in Finland date from about 8000 bc, when the most recent of the Ice Ages was retreating. These primitive hunters and gatherers probably arrived from the east. Pottery making characterized another type of Stone Age culture (starting 3000? bc) known as the Comb-Ceramic; its practitioners were of a different origin. The succeeding Battle-Ax culture (1800-1600 bc) may have been brought to Finland by an Indo-European people from a more southerly Baltic region; these people were able navigators and also introduced agriculture. A merger of the Battle-Ax people and the previous dwellers resulted in the so-called Kiukainen culture (1600-1200 bc).
During the age of the Vikings the Finns became exposed to both eastern and western
influences. Vikings from Sweden used the Åland Islands (colonized by Swedes in the 6th century ad) as a base for their journeys of pillage and trade into Russia as far south as the Black Sea. Although they did not actually
participate in these Viking expeditions, the Finns benefited by the growing contact and the
establishment of trading colonies in their country by merchants from Sweden and Gotland. At the end of the 11th century three Finnish tribes had spread as far north as the 62nd parallel: the Finns proper in
the southwest, the Tavastians in the interior lake district, and the Karelians to the east. Saami were also living in the
wilderness to the north. No unified government or state existed.
Also the finnish lanuage has been known to have hella
long words like:pelimannimusiikki(I think i spelled that right)Some 72 percent of Finland is still forested.
