Integrated Writing Taks to Toefl - Norse man coins The Reading and the lecture are both about the coins found in North america, which are known for being brought thousands of years ago from Norse man. The reading passage supports that those coins are a fake discovery, and that someone probably put them there to mislead public. In contrary, the lecturer affirms that it is possible that those coins where once brought from Norse man. The main points discussed are presented in this essay. First of all, the author introduces doubts about the distance of the coins site and the norse man settlements. It is mention that those site with the coins are far away from the settlement and thus, it is very likely that they were bring from norse man. The professor refutes this and states that the norse man used to travel long distances and, therefore, the coins could have been carried with them during those travels, even though they didn’t had a permanent settlement. Secondly, the author contents that there was no other coins like that in the region. The article notes that, if the norse man had bring at a moment coins to Canada, it would probably have more of the same coins. The lecturer disagrees and supports that, once the norseman had no permanent settlement at that place, they would have taken it back with them. She elaborates on this by explaining that, once they had to return to Europe there was no point in living the coins in such places. At last, the reading points that native American did not recognized any value in coins. The article argues that there was no reason for taking it to those places, since they wouldn’t be able to commercialize with the natives. The professor, on the other hand, explains that even though native americans did not recognize coins value as European did, it is possible that it had a kind of worth. She puts forwards the idea by saying that native appreciated several kind of object, not because it was a coin, but because of its beauty. Finally, she exemplifies with necklesses, which are beautiful and was extensively used as an exchange between native americans and Europeans.