Vikings Unit Review

Leif Erickson is an explorer who...

• Founded trade routes to Constantinople

• Reached North America around the year 1000 CE

• Was the first to settle Greenland

• Invented the design of Viking longships

Viking runes are

• letters and symbols

• necklaces

• spearheads

• specific settlements

What is Scandinavia?

• A term used to describe Northern Europe

• Another term used to describe Italy

• A region in North America

• A country in Europe

What is a Viking "thing"?

• A crazied warrior

• A war council that plans battle strategy

• An assembly to settle disputes and set rules

• A Viking royal family

An elite, crazed Viking fighting force who were unafraid to charge into battle

• Power Forwards

• Berserkers

• Thorsmen

• Danes

What is a pagan?

• A person who raids monasteries and kills monks

• A sweater made of animal hide worn by most Vikings

• A person who lives in a monastery

• Any person who's religious beliefs are different than the main ones of the time/place

Which of the following statements about Vikings is true?

• Vikings wore horns on their helmets

• Vikings raided monasteries to spread belief in Odin

• Vikings were simply bloodthirsty raiders with little culture

• Vikings lived in local communities with no centralized ruler of Scandinavia

Lindisfarne is...

• The location of the first major Viking raid in England and beginning of the Viking Age

• A English farm settled by Leif Erickson

• A Norse festival where berserkers worshipped Odin

• The location of the last major event during the Viking Age

Select one reason the Vikings had to raid and trade to keep their societies alive

• They were being raided and stolen from by the Persians

• The King of Scandinavia made it law

• Their growing seasons were too short to feed a growing population

• They were so heavily taxed by Constantinople

Who was Erik the Red?

• First person to live at the North Pole

• Discovered North America on his ship, the Santa Maria

• First person to settle Greenland

• Leader of the Viking Army during the raid on Lindisfarne