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Where did the Vikings come from?

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Norway, Denmark, and Sweden

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What did the Vikings want when they raided places?

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gold, slaves, land

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Where did they fight?

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across Europe

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Did they try to settle America?

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yes

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What happened When they tried to settle America?

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they were defeated by the indians

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What was the defeat by the indians the start of?

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the decline of the vikings

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When did the vikings come about?

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end of the 8th century

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Who did the vikings attack?

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defenseless villages

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How much taller were the vikings than most people?

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nearly a foot

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Why were they so much taller than the other people?

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they ate a lot of protein

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What is their motto?

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I want what you have and i will kill you in order to take it

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What did the vikings master?

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boat building

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When did the vikings usually strike?

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dawn

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14
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Did they have horns like everybody depicts them?

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no

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Where did the ideas of them having horns come from?

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ancient relics conducting fertility rights

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What kind of people were the vikings?

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homebodies

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How was the life of a viking women?

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very good

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What could viking women do?

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own property and divorce without the husbands consent

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19
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When did you start training?

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7

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How did the kids learn how to fight?

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their fathers passed down the skills

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On top of building ships and fighting skills, what were kids taught?

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how to read stars, wind, and seabirds

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Most of the time what were vikings?

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farmers

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How were the vikings paid at first?

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they got it from booty they recovered

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DId the vikings have a uniform?

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no they dressed how they want

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How did guys choose what they dress?
each guy dressed themselves
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What were the most priced vikings possesions?
their weapons
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How were spears produced?
quickly and cheaply
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What was their favorite two weapons?
sword and battle ax
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What was a beautiful sword to a person?
the ultimate battle symbol
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What was the sheild like?
circular, made of wood, had theu own symbol on it as a way of their identification and a way to personalize it
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During the second part of the viking rains what were the vikings paid with?
a regular salary from the king
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WHat was the most popular thing to drink?
beer and ale
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why was water not very popular to drink?
it was unclean and they got sick.
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What did they call their raiding?
called it going A VIKING or going blundering
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When relaxing what did the vikings do?
listened to narrative poems
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How do we know about the Vikings?
through the poems
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What is another one of their motto's?
better die than live your life as a wimp
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What was the pagan belief?
death on battle was glorious and you would directly go into the afterlife
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How were the Vikings able to rush into battle with no fear?
halucinigan msuhrooms
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What phrase coems from the halucinigans mushroom thing?
going berzerk
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Were all Scandinavians Vikings?
no
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How was rapping?
widespread
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What was one of the ways the Vikings had good success?
They would rade them take everything and make them pay a price to not do it again. Then in two years they would attack again.
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WHy did the Vikings start to move to look fo rmore areas?
they heard that bwinters in england werent as bad as scandinavia
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What part of britian did the vikings atke over?
everything north of london
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When id the vikings come to Englan?
865 AD
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When was the battle of AShdown?
877
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What role did women have in fighting?
they took care of the soldiers and sometimes fought
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What was the Vikings advantage?
their mobility
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How was the Alcohol content in beer back then compared to Today?
much lower, today it is 4-6 percent
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Would children drink?
yes
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What did sheilds have on them?
animals and leather
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What places were commonly attacked by vikings?
british isles and france
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How much were they paid from the birtish isles and france in order to stop looting them?
7000 pounds of gold and silver.
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What was the best defense against the Franksih calvary?
going down or across the river
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What was the vikings defenseive wall called?
skall board
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What was the skall used for?
both offensively and defensively
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When someone would get hurt in battle who survived?
the ones with minor injuries
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Who did they believe the skall board was developed by?
their god of war
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How long did the people think the viking s would be around for?
forever
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In What way was Charlemagne an exceptional Ruler for his Time?
He tried to promote education so his people can be smarter. He tried to better the area he ruled.
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What role did Charles Martel play in preserving Christianity in WEstern Europe?
He defeated the Muslims at Tours
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Why do you think the Vikings left their homelands and invaded the lands of western europe, iceland, greenland, and north america?
they wanted to expand their land and find more trade routes
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What was used for money during the middle ages?
farm goods
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Why did a society based on trade become a society based on agriculture during the middle ages?
Barbaric Invasion off set trade
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Who were the Moors?
Spanish muslims
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What was the only taxable form of wealth in the middle ages?
land
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Villa was latin for?
farms

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