AP world History #7 Flashcards

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