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| 5387956609 | The part of norse society that most captures the popular imagination is | The viking raid | 0 | |
| 5387956610 | The historical records of Europe was written by | Educated clergy who frequently were the victims of these raids | 1 | |
| 5387956611 | The historical Redfords called the raiders... | The most vile and disgusting type of people on earth | 2 | |
| 5387956612 | What did the raiders think about the raids? | That they were normal and desirable consequence of the pressures on a growing population in a part of the world that had limited land for the people | 3 | |
| 5387956613 | The raids were similar to those conducted by the Vikings occurred in other parts of blank during the Viking era | Europe | 4 | |
| 5389907495 | What made the Viking race so notable? | Their success (due in large part to the superiority of Viking ships) and their extent of travel (well outside of the borders of Northern Europe) | 5 | |
| 5389907496 | What exposed the Norse people to the magnitude of wealth changing hands in the european kingdoms | trade routes | 6 | |
| 5438358422 | what were the norse looking for | new victims to raid; new partners with which to trade; land on which to settle | 7 | |
| 5438366977 | when did raids occur | when easy targets were discovered that could be attacked, plundered, and departed from quickly | 8 | |
| 5438389794 | where did vikings stay? | stayed along the coast or on navigable rivers | 9 | |
| 5438397222 | goal for vikings | grav as much valuable treasure as possible before an effective defense could be raised | 10 | |
| 5438405698 | typical treasures included .... | weapons, tools, clothing, jewelry, precious metals and people who could be sold as slaves | 11 | |
| 5438414167 | what did the viking raiders depend on to make their raids a success | superiority of their ships | 12 | |
| 5438456638 | the shallow draft of viking age ships meant that | they could navigate shallow bays and rivers where other contemporary ships couldn't sail | 13 | |
| 5438487204 | what made the ships possible to land on any sandy beach | broad bottom of the viking ship | 14 | |
| 5438606392 | the norse blank religion helped to propel the norse expansion through two key beliefs | pagan | 15 | |
| 5438642229 | first key belief of the norse pagan religion | no existence after death. death is the end for all but a few | 16 | |
| 5438753867 | the few chosen warriors who enjoyed the pleasures of a heaven called | valhalla | 17 | |
| 5438778853 | what was the only thing survived after death | one's reputation, one's good name | 18 | |
| 5446160850 | second key belief or norsemen | one's death is determined by fate, which is chosen by the norns | 19 | |
| 5446232317 | one ought to make the very best of every moment of life because | the worst that could happen would be death, and the nest that could happen would be fame and an enhancement to one's reputation | 20 | |
| 5446409920 | egils saga skalla-grimssonar | egil and men were captured by farmers and were bonded. egil slipped through the bonds and he and his men grabbed their captor's treasure and ran away to the ship. egil felt like a thief so he set the house ablaze and killed the occupants. he became a "hero" | 21 | |
| 5448403828 | vikingr means | raider or pirate | 22 | |
| 5448516885 | most norsemen were not pirates, but rather | farmers, traders, smiths and so on | 23 | |
| 5448563404 | the norse lit implies that | going a-viking was suitable for young men and old men were settle down | 24 | |
| 5448578602 | the first recorded viking raid occurred in the year 793 against the great monastery of | lindisfarne off the coast of england | 25 | |
| 5448591304 | the anglo-saxon chronicle for that year reads: | on 8 june, the ravages of heathen men miserably destroyed god's church on lindsfarne,with plunder and slaughter | 26 | |
| 5448683897 | why were the monasteries targets for norse raiders | wealth | 27 | |
| 5448704831 | berserkers | consumed hallucinogenic mushrooms called amanita muscaria | 28 | |
| 5448876830 | berserkergang | fit or madness the berserk experienced | 29 | |
| 5448960796 | for a king like the emperor charlemagne, the biggest problem is | the vikings | 30 | |
| 5448964458 | what ended the viking age | the widespread spread conversion to christianity in the norse lands | 31 | |
| 5448979423 | two other reasons as to why the viking age ended | countries had better coastal defenses and the land that they settled on where plundered during the warm weather | 32 | |
| 5449239291 | the vikings set up colonies in three main areas | normandy (france), eastern england and eastern ireland | 33 | |
| 5449298129 | since the britains were unable to deal with the vikings so they called | german tribes (Saxons, Jutes and Angles) from germany and denmark | 34 | |
| 5449341026 | when german tribes took britain and made it their own, most of brittania became | england angleland | 35 | |
| 5449381095 | another viking group settled in france around the mouth of the | river seine | 36 | |
| 5449394769 | the vikings sailed up the seine and laid siege to blank several times and were constantly expanding the area they pillaged | paris | 37 | |
| 5449421359 | who were quick to become french, particularly since they were a minority in their new land | normans | 38 | |
| 5449432092 | after a few generations, the norwegian language and customs were fading fast and the normans were... | french | 39 | |
| 5449460200 | what made norman french different | supreme opportunists | 40 |
