Vikings

Question 1

What was their diet?

Answer 1

2 meals a day, fruit, fish, walnuts, honey, cake, pork, beef, milk and cheese

Question 2

How would they accessorise?

Answer 2

Comb, broatch, gold ring with gems

Question 3

Where/when was their first raid?

Answer 3

England, dominated nothern Europe, 793 AD stole gold silver and manuscripts

Question 4

Who was odin?

Answer 4

God of thunder

Question 5

Who was Freyia

Answer 5

In chatge of love and peace

Question 6

What is Asgard?

Answer 6

Heavens, center of the world, spiritual

Question 7

Where did they go when they died?

Answer 7

Valhulla

Question 8

Who were berserkrs?

Answer 8

Specific type of viking that would be veru intense. Destroy anything that got in their way

Question 9

Who was beowulf?

Answer 9

Brave Viking, destroyed a family of mosters, killed water monsters and defeated the greats (another Viking tribe)

Question 10

What was a Viking raid?

Answer 10

Kill monks, crossed rivers, raided france Italy, Russia, Germany, Spain

Question 11

What was a viking trade?

Answer 11

Traded with merchants, sold the goods at markets (Ivory, fur, fruit, honey)

Question 12

What is a keel?

Answer 12

Large piece of wood connected to the bottome of the ship to make it sea worthy

Question 13

Yorks stratigraphy

Answer 13

Located in north England, Displays its long history, daye back to the 9th century, useful artifacts, architecture.

Question 14

Layers of York’s stratigraphy

Answer 14

Stuart, tudor, medival, norman, Vikings age

Question 15

What are the Scandinavian countries

Answer 15

Sweden, norway, denmark

Question 16

When were the vikings alive?

Answer 16

From 800CE to 1050 CE

Question 17

Jorvik trades

Answer 17

Easy access, large river running through, many trades with Dublin

Question 18

When did they capture york?

Answer 18

866

Question 19

Who discovered North America?

Answer 19

The vikings leif Erikson. Was no fluke

Question 20

Who was canute the great?

Answer 20

994AD, Denmark, effectivel ruler, international peace,created dominance across scandinavia

Question 21

Erik the red

Answer 21

950AD, Norway, first viking to discover greenland, created a large community of Christians, committed many crimes

Question 22

Who is Leif Eriksson?

Answer 22

970. Iceland, first to discover North America, large step for humans,

Question 23

Why is greenland called greenland?

Answer 23

Because Erik the red wanted people to think that it was green and go there so he could kill them

Question 24

What is a push factor?

Answer 24

A reason to leave a specific place

Question 25

What is a pull factor?

Answer 25

Reasons to go to a specific place

Question 26

What bodies of water did they cross?

Answer 26

North sea, black sea, Norwegian sea, Arctic sea

Question 27

Where did the vikings settle?

Answer 27

Iceland, Sweden parts of greenland, Denmark, south pf Italy (Sicily) Holland

Question 28

Countries raided by the vikings

Answer 28

Finland, coast of germany, France, north spain, Bulgaria

Question 29

Nobles?

Answer 29

Upper class, job to serve the king, lived in manors

Question 30

Karls?

Answer 30

Farmers, craftsmen, sailors, worriors, basic working class, lived in liong houses

Question 31

Jarls

Answer 31

Quite wealthy, second from the top, viewed as a leader

Question 32

Punishment and crimes

Answer 32

Head shaved, betraying the king - arms and legs cut off,

Question 33

Peasants

Answer 33

Look after farms small towns, small houses, public execution, long baggy clothes