Vikings (Basic)
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- Created on: 05-05-17 15:08
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- Vikings
- Technological determinism
- Viking ships are advance and strong
- The ships wood is cut along the grain
- Some boards were just 3/4 inch thick
- They could travel further upstream
- Ships were very light compared to ones during the same period
- Sails meant that there were less crewmen and more space for trading
- The ships wood is cut along the grain
- Viking ships are advance and strong
- Ideological determinism
- Volgarde and Sutton Hoo helmets
- Norse gods and mythology were used to decorate
- To lead you had to be a warrior and at war
- Volgarde and Sutton Hoo helmets
- Economic determinism
- Coinage is being heavily produced and distributed
- Thus there was riches to claim
- Early on trading was the primary method used by Vikings
- Very dense settlements show economic participants
- Scandinavians had access to many luxury resources
- Eider duck, reindeer and foxes etc
- Whet stones/hone stones
- Scandinavians had access to many luxury resources
- Coinage is being heavily produced and distributed
- Demographic determinism
- Too much pressure on the land in their own kingdom
- Elites were leaving
- Conquer or be conquered
- Too much pressure on the land in their own kingdom
- Environment determinism
- Medieval warm period
- Vikings colonise Greenalnd, but a little ice age causes them to leave
- Greenland was cold, but there was evidence of barely being grown which suggests a change in temperature
- Vikings colonise Greenalnd, but a little ice age causes them to leave
- Medieval warm period
- Misc
- Taken weapons were considered cursed
- Weapons were dumped in a ritualistic style as offerings to Norse gods
- There were big Scandanavian trading settlements such as Helgo
- Runic writing was present on the Danish Bracteate
- Coinage and writing wasn't fully developed yet
- Ring forts were common -> Ismantorp /Oland
- Taken weapons were considered cursed
- Scandanavia
- Swedes expanded east and south into Bulgaria and Russia
- Danes expanded into England, Greenland, France and Italy
- Norwegians expanded into Iceland, Scotland, Ireland and the North
- Technological determinism
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