What does the word "Viking" mean? What should we really call them?
"Raiding" or "pillaging"; "Vikingr".
What region did the Vikings come from? Name three modern countries in it.
Scandinavia; Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.
What's this? What made it so effective?
A Viking "longship". It had a shallow "draft" and expert design so it could navigate most waterways, both oceans and rivers.
Name three places the Vikings went.
Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, the British Isles, Constantinople, Kiev, Spain, France, etc.
How did the Vikings change the Heptarchy that had previously been ruling over Britain?
They invaded with a "Great Heathen Army" and established the "Danelaw".
What's this? Tell us two facts about it.
Kiev on the Dnieper River, under the Kievan Rus.
What are these? What kinds do we have that are related to the Vikings?
Historical records; hostile contemporary accounts and sagas from later Icelandic skalds.
What's this? Tell us two facts about it.
The Viking raid of the monastery at Lindisfarne in Northern Britain in AD 793, the beginning of the "Viking Age".
What were the two main forms of religion in early Medieval Europe? Name a major difference between them.
Paganism and Christianity.
Either (1) tell us the three main factors that led to Viking exploration, or: (2) choose one and tell us three facts about it.
(1) culture/religion, (2) climate/geography, (3) politics.
Who are these guys? Whom did they serve? Where?
The Varangian Guard(s); the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople.
What was the most interesting thing you learned about the Vikings? Why?
Cool, thanks for sharing! / Wow, do you really not know?
