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What was the most interesting thing you learned about the Vikings? Why?
Cool, thanks for sharing! / Wow, do you really not know?
Who are these guys? Whom did they serve? Where?
The Varangian Guard(s); the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople.
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.
What were the two main forms of religion in early Medieval Europe? Name a major difference between them.
Paganism and Christianity.
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 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.
Kiev on the Dnieper River, under the Kievan Rus.
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".
Name three places the Vikings went.
Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, the British Isles, Constantinople, Kiev, Spain, France, etc.
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.
What region did the Vikings come from? Name three modern countries in it.
Scandinavia; Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.
What does the word "Viking" mean? What should we really call them?
"Raiding" or "pillaging"; "Vikingr".