Western civilization subject presentation

1. The Vikings Age
Group 5

2. Vikings History

3. The period from the earliest recorded
raids in the 790s until the Norman conquest
of England in 1066 is commonly known as
the Viking Age of Scandinavian history.
Vikings used the Norwegian
Sea and Baltic Sea for sea routes to the
south. The Normans were descended from
Vikings who were
given feudal overlordship of areas in
northern France the Duchy of Normandy in
the 10th century.

4. Vikings Geography's History
Geographically, a Viking Age may be assigned
not only to Scandinavian lands (modern Denmark,
Norway and Sweden),
but also to territories under North
Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw,
including Scandinavian York, the administrative
centre of the remains of the Kingdom
of Northumbria, parts of Mercia, and East
Anglia. Viking navigators opened
the road to new lands to the north, west and east,
resulting in the foundation of independent.

5. The Vikings explored the northern islands and coasts of
the North Atlantic, ventured south to North Africa and east to
Russia, Constantinople (Istanbul), and the Middle East.

6. The last period of Vikings
appeared when the kings of Norway
continued to assert power in parts of
northern Britain and Ireland, and
raids continued into the 12th century,
but the military ambitions of
Scandinavian rulers were now
directed toward new paths.
In 1107, Sigurd 1 of Norway sailed for the eastern
Mediterranean with Norwegian crusaders to fight for the
newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem, and Danes and
Swedes participated energetically in the Baltic
Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries.

7. The genetic of Vikings  The ancestors of Scandinavian
people
• Haplogroup I-M253
35 percent in Norway,
Denmark, and Sweden, and
peaking at 40 percent within
western Finland
• Viking also live in Iceland and
Greenland.
• Haplogroup R-M420
Vikings settled in Britain
which most Norse descent in
Shetland and Orkney Islands

8. • The ancestors some group of The
United Kingdom people like French and Normandy
• The specialized genetic and surname study in Liverpool
demonstrated marked Norse heritage, found that up to 50
percent of males who belonged
to original families of Viking before the years of
industrialization and population expansion.
• similar to the percentage of Norse inheritance found
among males in the Orkney Islands.

9. In people opinion, Vikings is vandal but these people are one
side of a quiet personality, sensitive, and artistic. They have talent to
make pottery, weaving and metal castings.
Vikings are farmer.
Viking men have sailing on the
ocean while woman and
children in village do farming.
Viking has skilled in
navigation. They can know to
understand the wind direction
that can guide them to sailing
on the Atlantic Ocean. The
Vikings have also studied the
behavior of whales, birds,
puffin and other seabirds this
information has helped the
Vikings travel to America and
Greenland.

10. CULTURE OF VIKINGS

11. Viking Gods and Berserkers
The warfare and violence
of the Vikings were often
motivated and fuelled by their
beliefs in Norse religion,
focusing on Thor and Odin,
the most fierce and
powerful were the berserkers.
Before battle they would get
into a frenzy that allowed them
to ignore pain and throw
thoughts of survival and safety
out the window.

12. LANGUAGE
• Old Norse is a North
Germanic language that was
spoken by inhabitants of
Scandinavia and inhabitants
of their overseas settlements
during the Viking Age.

13. CUISINE
• Meat products of all kinds
• Seafood
• Bread
• Porridge
• Vegetables, fruits, berries and
nuts
• Beer, and Bjórr

14. ENTERTAINMENT
Board games and
dice games were
played as a popular
pastime, at all levels
of society.

15. • The Viking society was divided into the three socio-economic
classes of Thralls, Karls and Jarls.
1. Thralls were the lowest ranking class and were slaves.

16. 2. Karls were free
peasants. They owned
farms, land and cattle
and engaged in daily
chores like ploughing
the fields, milking the
cattle, building houses
and wagons.

17. 3. The Jarls were the aristocracy
of the Viking society.
They were wealthy and owned large
estates with huge longhouses, horses
and many thralls (slaves).

18. Weapons and Warfare of
Vikings

19. Weapons
The Vikings used a vast array of weapons and armor:
swords, axes, and spears were their main weapons, but some also
used bows and daggers.
These weapons also used to show each
individual's own wealth and social
status. For this reason, most Viking
weapons were decorated with precious
gems which made them very valuable.

20. The greatest of Viking
weapons was his sword. It was
highly prized for its fighting
strength and was a status symbol
The Viking battle axe was a very
deadly weapon. It could easily
cleave through armor and still
leave a mortal wound.
The Viking spear was probably
their most popular weapon. It
wasn’t as expensive as a sword,
and was still very deadly

21. Armor
Vikings armor consisted of helmets, shields, and chain
mail or leather tunics. They wore strong iron helmets.
Most were simple cup shapes, with a strip of metal to protect
the nose and there is no evidence of Viking helmets with horns
on them.

22. Viking Ships
Vikings fought mostly on foot and
used their ships mainly as a transport to
the scene of battle. The They had a
dragon head on the bow of the ship to
protect against the evil spirits of the sea.

23. Trade In the Viking Period

24. • The port of Hedeby in Schleswig, which is
located in Germany today, was Denmark’s
most important trading center during the
Viking period
• They operated under the protection and control
of the king
• Ribe was another important trading town in the
Viking Age

25. A safe journey – free trade in the Viking Age
• Missionary Ansgar and the
merchants he was travelling
with were robbed of all their
possessions
• Danish king Sigfred’s
emissaries travelled to
Worms to make an
agreement with King Louis
the German
• Their objective was to
secure peace in the border
areas between the territories
of the Danes and the Saxons

26. Exchange in the
• Silver became a more Viking Age
important component of
trading
• Brought for farm products
such as cereals, vegetables
and domestic animals
• Exchanged for necessities,
such as clothes or tools,
and luxury items, like
jewelry and glass

27. THANK YOU
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