Michelle Story

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The Vikings

• Michelle Story
• Victoria Yang
• Alex Edquist

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Chronology

• 650 The Vikings invent the longship.
• 793 Viking raids on European ports and villages
  begin with a raid on the English Lindisfarne
  monks.
• 825 The Vikings move east and establish a
  trading post in Kievan Rus, at Novorgod.
• 838 The Vikings conquer Ireland.
• 850 The Vikings conquer Scotland.
• 864 The Viking leader Rurik conquers most of
  early Russia.
• 874 The Vikings establish a settlement in
  Iceland.
• 878 The Treaty of Wedmore makes some of the
  Vikings accept Christianity.
• 882 Oleg conquers Kiev, and Viking trade helps
  make it one of the worlds richest cities.
• 890 Alfred the Great of England pushes the
  Vikings out of Britain.

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Chronology

• 911 The Vikings begin raids on France.
• 990 The Vikings assault the English and demand
  tribute from them.
• 1007 Leif Erikson lands in Newfoundland and
  establishes a trading colony there. He is the
  first European in the New World, although the the
  colony does not last.
• 1016 The English ask Cnut, King of Denmark to
  become their king in order to avoid paying huge
  sums of money to the Vikings to avoid raids.
• 1066 King Harold of England battles the Danish
  king and wins, marking the final major Viking
  raid and expelling the Vikings from Britain.
• 1066 The Polish destroy the Vikings vital
  trading post, Hedeby.
• 1150 Christianity is widely accepted by Vikings
  in Scandanavia.
• 1175 The Icelandic bishop forbids bearing arms
  in Iceland.

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Conquest of British Isles
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Viking Settlements in Europe
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Viking Trade Routes
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Regional Impact Northern Europe
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Regional Impact Northern Europe
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Regional Impact Eastern Europe
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Regional Impact Eastern Europe
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Important Vikings
Harald 'Klak' Halfdansson
Ragnar Lodbrok
Leif Erikson
Rurik
Rollo of Normandy
Cnut the Great
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Comparisons
They benefitted the area around the Volga
economically by promoting trade. They made Kiev
a wealthy city.
They devastated the British Isles economically by
raiding so extensively and demanding huge tribute
payments.
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The Vikings became Christians first in England,
when the Treaty of Wedmore states they must
become Christians.
They spread Christianity to Scandinavia.
Iceland and Greenland remained mostly pagan until
almost 1200.
They helped Vladimir of Kiev spread Christianity
in Rus.
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The Vikings established colonies, settlements,
and cities wherever they went. They conquered
all of the British Isles and maintained control
there until 1000 CE. They also conquered most
of Rus at the same time. They established
colonies and city-states in Normandy, the
Mediterranean, and Iceland, though they did not
control large tracts of land in Normandy and the
Mediterranean.
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The Vikings maintained a unified culture, even
though they controlled diverse and separated
lands. They acted as a culturally unifying force
in these areas, much like
The Roman/Byzantine Empires
Charlemagne in Germany and France
The Islamic caliphates
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Change Over Time

• The Vikings were pagans at first, but starting
  around 850 CE, Christianity spread from the
  Viking centers in Britain to the rest of the
  Vikings in other areas. Almost all Vikings were
  Christian by 1300 CE.
• The Vikings greatly profited from raiding from
  800 CE until almost 1100 CE, at which point major
  raids ended because of stronger European monarchs
  that could better protect their subjects and
  fewer Vikings that could afford the boats and
  leisure time required for raiding.

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Change Over Time

• The early Vikings allowed women equality with men
  in politics, but as they expanded into Europe,
  they adopted the local traditions of restricting
  womens role in politics.
• Beginning in 800, there were many small landowner
  Vikings who could afford to both leave their
  lands and buy boats to go raiding. Successful
  raiders used their new wealth to buy huge tracts
  of land. Eventually, Viking society became
  dominated by very few, extremely wealthy
  landowners and vast numbers of poor peasants,
  which meant that there were fewer who could
  afford to leave to go raiding or afford to buy
  boats for the same purpose.

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Change Over Time

• Between 800 and 900, the Vikings were almost
  exclusively raiders. By 900, they had
  diversified to become traders as well, especially
  in Eastern Europe. By 1000, they used their
  considerable sea-faring skills to become
  explorers as well.
• Before 900, the Vikings maintained their unique,
  distinctive culture wherever they traveled.
  Later, however, they assimilated into the local
  cultures. One example of this is the
  introduction of Viking vocabulary into the
  English language.

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Impact on Todays Society

• Viking metal is a type of heavy metal music that
  is characterized by its galloping pace, its
  keyboard-rich authentic sound, bleakness, and its
  dramatic emphasis on Norse mythology, Norse
  paganism, and the Viking Age. It is noisy,
  chaotic, and is often accompanied by soft
  keyboard melodies.
• There has been enthusiasm for historical
  reenactment, and the seriousness and accuracy of
  re-enactments have increased. The largest of
  these groups are The Vikings and Regia
  Anglourm. Most include an aspect of live-steel
  combat.
• Common Scandinavian place names include those
  ending in -by, thorpe, and -thwaite. These
  were probably named by families from other Viking
  villages and moved to create new centers from
  farming and trade. Historians are able to
  determine the spread of Viking settlements.
• The name Vikings are used in various sports
  teams such as the Minnesota Vikings as reference
  to how Vikings are characterized as fast and
  swift.
• The Vikings were the breeders of Icelandic
  ponies, which are still in use today.

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If You Remember Nothing Else

• The Vikings were from Scandinavia
  (Sweden, Norway, Denmark).
• They were the inventors of the longship
• Lief Erikson and the Vikings were the first
  Europeans to set foot on what would become the
  New World beating Christopher Columbus by almost
  500 years.
• The Vikings are mostly known for being pirates
  and raiders, but in many areas, they were
  primarily traders who helped to promote trade and
  prosperity.
• They were originally pagans, but helped spread
  Christianity later they devastated the economies
  of Britain and the other areas they raided but
  promoted those of Rus and the other areas where
  they traded and they influenced political
  structures and laws of the areas they settled.

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Jobs Performed

• Michelle Story PIRATES charts, comparison
• Alex Edquist Chronology, change over time,
  putting timeline together
• Victoria Yang Modern impacts, charts/maps/images

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Works Cited

• http//www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/evide
  nce_01.shtml
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/who.html
• http//historyworld.net/timesearch/default.asp?con
  id2bottomsort21014directionNEXTkeywordsviki
  ngstimelineid
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/relig
  ion_01.shtml
• http//www.mirror.org/ken.roberts/king.alfred.html
  
• http//www.viking.no/e/russia/index.html