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The Vikings

The Vikings. Causes and Costs of Conflict. Unit Questions. What are the different sources of significant conflict within a society and between societies? How does significant conflict impact a society ? Why do societies resort to armed conflict?

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The Vikings

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  1. The Vikings Causes and Costs of Conflict

  2. Unit Questions • What are the different sources of significant conflict within a society and between societies? • How does significant conflict impact a society? • Why do societies resort to armed conflict? • What are the measureable costs of significant conflicts? • Are there causes and costs of conflicts that are consistent through time and place? • (Historical Thinking Benchmark: Cause and Consequence) • How can significant conflicts be resolved?

  3. Today’s Goals Solidify basic knowledge about three conflicts (Somali Pirates, Vikings, 100 Years War). 2. Practice using Cornell Notes strategy. 3. Prepare to use information next day to compare conflicts.

  4. Cornell Notes 1 2 • Process • Own words • 3 ways of interacting with the material = better for your 3 4 http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html

  5. Vikings One Nation Under 1 King Wild and Dirty People False! Crude, Unsophisticated Weapons Hated Across Europe Bloodthirsty Warriors

  6. Who? • Origin: organized as clans, led by chieftains; independent farmers and traders • Later: some chieftains organized energetic young men seeking adventure and treasure overseas • Homeland: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark • Tool: long ships • Targets: communities on the coasts and rivers of Europe • Style of Attack: burning, plundering, killing, etc • Name Origin: vikingr – early Scandinavian languages for “pirate” Images from: Travel Gate Sweden

  7. When and Where? How? Images from: Wikipedia

  8. How? • What started as tax paid to Danish Vikings, slowly became introduced into England’s normal tax system. Runestone monuments honouring different Vikings who receiving danegeld (a tax charged by Viking invaders onto the lands they invaded – when paid, they would leave) Images from: Wikipedia Table from Barbara A Abraham’s “Danegeld”

  9. Why? • Powerlessness – many attacks on their homelands from abroad – particularly Charlemagne’s invasions in the late 8th / early 9th Century (Charlemagne’s armies would kill non-Christians) • Agriculture – limited land to feed the population (especially Norway) • Demographics – a “youth bulge” – too many young men (eldest sons inherited everything, other sons had to find fortune elsewhere) • Economics – economic troubles in the Middle East had a domino effect making old markets less profitable across Northern Europe

  10. Impact • Over 1000 Norse words added to English • Sailing techniques and ship construction • Founded Normandy, Iceland, Dublin, Kiev, etc • Revived European trade • Military troop landing techniques

  11. Cornell Notes TONIGHT 1 2 • Process • Own words • 3 ways of interacting with the material = better for your 3 TOMORROW 4 http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html

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