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E&T Viking Age
Q and A for The Viking Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who are the Vikings, what were they like? | The Vikings were people that raided and traded, traveling all along northern Europe. They were small and mobile in groups due to the environment not being ideal for agricultur. |
| What determined a Vikings social status? | Determined based on luxury goods they could buy/have. |
| Vikings were skilled at ship building, describe them. | They were longships that had both oars and a sail for travel. Light and shallow drafted, it was ideal for river transport. |
| Why were empires good for the Vikings? | It made trade easier to do for them in terms of geography as empires tend to have lots of wealth. |
| Where was evidence found of Vikings trading? | Abbasids, Constantinople, and Byzantine. |
| Why would the Vikings disappear? | Political and economic conditions changed. |
| Haseatic League was what? | A collection of trading city-states that had control of much of the Baltic Trade |