https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen, known as Vikings, undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America. They briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Viking age ended when the raids stopped. It was no longer profitable or desirable to raid. en-us 2021-04-08 18:57:03 UTC 2026-06-01 03:27:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f60e.png tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1397384144 This explains how the culture met the Vikings demise. It shows how they raided and explored the world. They talked about the economy and culture. The long ship is talked about. Technology is talked about. They talk about the leaders and the battles of the Vikings. It explains the conversion of Christianity. It explains the invasions of the countries.]]> 2021-04-08 19:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1397384144 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1397386093 This explains the origin of the Vikings and their actions. Most of the Vikings weren't raiders but fishers and farmers. They used force and gifts to gain followers. The borders weren't solid and the people lived wherever was live able. When the Vikings explored they got involved in the politics and trade. They had gods but not all of them worshiped the same gods. They were paganists. It explains the conversion to Christianity. The Vikings did things such as converting to Christianity to gain money and political power. It contains the major rulers of the vikings.]]> 2021-04-08 19:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1397386093 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409366736 2021-04-12 20:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409366736 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409368576 2021-04-12 20:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409368576 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409369715 The Viking economy was based on agriculture and local food products obtained from hunting, fishing, and collecting. Chieftains and members of the elite required luxury goods to set themselves off from the population at large. Such wares were obtained by trade, often from far-away locations.

]]> 2021-04-12 20:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409369715 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409371113 Technological innovations such as the potter's wheel and the vertical loom transformed not only the types of products being manufactured in Viking settlements, but also the scale on which they were produced. They were also known for their boats. Technological developments emerged as people came together in growing coastal trading centres and market towns.]]> 2021-04-12 20:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409371113 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409372923 This is the primary source for the technology advancements of the Vikings in the Viking Age.]]> 2021-04-12 20:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409372923 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409373175 This source explains the Viking economy. Their economy was based on agriculture and local foods. They also traded with the Saami people in Northernmost Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Their agriculture was mainly dairy farming and the raising of sheep and goats.]]> 2021-04-12 20:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409373175 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409374756 During the Viking Age, the Norse had an oral culture and only rune writing existed. However, the Vikings had both law and government even without written law. All free men of the Vikings would gather in their communities to make law and to decide cases in a meeting called a Thing.

]]> 2021-04-12 20:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409374756 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409375264 Viking society was divided into clear social strata. At the top were the great landowners or magnates, in the middle were the farmers and at the bottom the slaves. The great divisions in society were between the free and unfree, rich and poor, as well as between men and women. Society was divided into three classes, the Jarls (aristocracy), Karls (lower class), and Thralls (slaves). Upward mobility was possible for Karls but not Thralls.

]]> 2021-04-12 20:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409375264 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409376631 They went from believing in the Norse Mythology to believing in Christianity. That ultimately led them to making kingdoms and settling down and stop being vikings. The Vikings were Norwegians, Swedes and Danes, men who were usually farmers, traders, blacksmiths, and craftsmen. For various reasons, they took to raiding towns, churches and monasteries. Many of the places they attacked were on the coasts as they were easiest to reach. When a Viking wasn’t busy farming, planting crops, they left their farms and went raiding. ]]> 2021-04-12 20:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409376631 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409378527 2021-04-12 20:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409378527 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409379685 The environment of Scandinavia was relatively cool and not conducive to large-scale agriculture. This meant that Viking communities tended to be small and somewhat mobile, which in turn made it easy for them to engage in long-distance travel to raid and trade.

]]> 2021-04-12 20:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409379685 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409381250 2021-04-12 20:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409381250 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409399983 They often returned in time for harvest in the fall. Raiding was very profitable and many farmers became full time pirates and raiders. The first Europeans to discover America. They settled Iceland and tried to colonize Greenland. They were also shrewd and competent traders and merchants. They traded all the goods of the north – furs, amber, iron and timber – for all the goods of the south – silver, gold, silks and spices. And all along the trade routes, the Vikings traded in slaves.]]> 2021-04-12 20:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409399983 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409421550 Harald Bluetooth:
was a king of Denmark and Norway. He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from c. 958 – c. 986. Harald introduced Christianity to Denmark and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand.
Erik the Red:
Norse explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first settlement in Greenland. He most likely earned the epithet "the Red" due to the color of his hair and beard.
Leif Erikson:
Norse explorer from Iceland. He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus]]> 2021-04-12 20:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1409421550 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1457516568 medieval steel was weak, containing particles of slag, the steel of the Ulfberht swords was different : Ulfberht – a superior steel that could not be replicated until well into the 1880s during the Industrial Revolution.]]> 2021-04-26 02:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1457516568 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1457518265 warship is narrower, longer, and shallower than a knörr, and is powered by oars, supplanted by sail. The warship is completely open and is built for speed and maneuverability.]]> 2021-04-26 02:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1457518265 tarkaniana https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1457521088  type of ship built for long sea voyages and used during the Viking expansion. The knörr was a cargo ship; the hull was wider, deeper and shorter than a longship, and could take more cargo and be operated by smaller crews.]]> 2021-04-26 02:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tarkaniana/cmm71wp7ezalywya/wish/1457521088