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The Vikings

The Vikings. By tage hansen , mikey nelson, levi baird , and danny dodge. Invasion. The invasion spread all throughout Europe . The Vikings where the most feared invaders of the north during the 800-900s.

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The Vikings

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  1. The Vikings By tagehansen, mikey nelson, levibaird, and danny dodge tage hansen 3rd per

  2. Invasion The invasion spread all throughout Europe tage hansen 3rd per

  3. The Vikings where the most feared invaders of the north during the 800-900s. • They where Germanic people who lived in what is now the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. • They had pagan gods they had many myths for and how it came to be. • They had many burials that they included boats and tools. • Their government was ruled by kings and nobles, suprisingly the government was very democratic for its time. • Assemblies of landowners made their laws. They might have been strong farmers but they also where fishers, gatherers, and hunters. tagehansen 3rd per

  4. Although the Vikings may sound like a calm civilization, they were actually the worst people to come across because they pillaged and raided other towns and cities, that’s why they were the most feared. • They would travel through Germany, France, and the Baltic area, they would raid and loot these areas. • They would bring their captives back to work on their farms and land. tage hansen 3rd per

  5. The Vikings had some of the most skill craftsmanship for building boats and other materials. • The Vikings could capture some of the most fortified villages and because they had a strong military. • Their ships carried them across the Atlantic ocean , to what is now Iceland, Greenland, and North America. • The Vikings would even use their boats as the roofs of their houses; they would tip it upside down and put it on top of their houses • Christianity divided Norway for almost a century. tage hansen 3rd per

  6. Maldon • The battle of Maldon was the English against the Viking invasion. • The English where invaded and where soon defeated and began to have the king buy off the Vikings to stop the armed struggle, so they paid them 10,000 roman pounds in silver to buy them off. • The English soon came back at around 1066 A.D. and fought the Vikings once more and defeated them at the Stamford bridge. tage hansen 3rd per

  7. the Vikings also ransacked the monks; the monks where living in Iceland and the Vikings took over in this time. • The monks actually made a poem about the Vikings at the battle of the Stamford bridge. tage hansen 3rd per

  8. Alcuin by: MikeyNeilsen Location • Northumbria, charlemagne, and Francia. tage hansen 3rd per

  9. What did they do? • He found love classical poetry in York, even though it was non-christian • Nothing is known about his parents • He was a math scholar • In this role as adviser, he tackled the emperor over his policy of forcing pagans to be Baptised on pain of death tage hansen 3rd per

  10. What was alcuin’s legacy • Alcuin made the abbey school into a model of excellence and many students flocked to it. He had many manuscripts copied using outstandingly beautiful calligraphy, the Carolingian minuscule based on round and legible uncial letters. tage hansen 3rd per

  11. Magyars tage hansen 3rd per

  12. The Magyars were located in modern day Hungaria. They were also known as the Huns. tage hansen 3rd per

  13. Magyar Life • They were nomads, horsemen, and fierce warriors. • They were led by their leader Arpad. • Arpad led the Magyars into the Carpathian Basin in 896. (Their homeland) tage hansen 3rd per

  14. They spent most of their lives conducting raids on neighboring slavs with their weapons of choice – bow and arrow. tage hansen 3rd per

  15. Carolingian Empire • The greatest Carolingian monarch was Charlemagne, who was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III at Rome in 800. His empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire. tage hansen 3rd per

  16. Carolingian Empire (800–888) is a term which has been used to refer to the realm of the Franks under the Carolingian dynasty in the Early Middle Ages tage hansen 3rd per

  17. How it started/ended • This dynasty is seen as the founders of France and Germany, and its beginning date is based on the crowning of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, and ends with the death of Charles the Fat tage hansen 3rd per

  18. Military It has long been held that the dominance of the Carolingian military was based on a "cavalry revolution" led by Charles Martel in 730s. The Carolingian military success rested primarily on novel siege technologies. Large numbers of horses were used by the Frankish military during the age of Charlemagne. This was because horses provided a quick, long-distance method of transporting troops. tage hansen 3rd per

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