Early Middle Ages: Vikings

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Early Middle Ages: Vikings

Lesson plan

Vikings	15 min
Work on your shield	5 min
Break	4 min
Work on your shield	10 min
Blooket	10 min
Closing	5 min

                                                         What's this?

793 AD

Raid on Lindisfarne, England

A raid that shocked the Christian world

Monasteries were easy targets

'Why had God allowed this?'

Why did Vikings start raiding?

• Population of Scandinavia was growing
  
• Not enough farmland and food in Scandinavia
  
• Maybe also: misunderstandings when they came to trade?
  

Excellent sailors

Danegeld

• Fighting did not work
  
• Kings and nobles tried to bribe the Vikings to stop their raids with money and/or lands
  

It did not always work

• Vikings did not always keep their promises

• Bribes only worked for one clan of Vikings - not for the others

• (Dorestad was raided 6 times, even though it was a Viking city after the first 3 raids)
  

Rollo, Duke of Normandy

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Short break!

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