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The Vikings

The Vikings were Scandinavians who raided and traded across Europe from the late 8th to 11th centuries, exploring as far as North America, Iceland, and Greenland. They developed advanced shipbuilding and navigation allowing them to travel widely. Viking raids began in England in the late 8th century targeting wealthy religious sites, and by the late 9th century they had overrun most Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, though Alfred the Great defeated them in 878, establishing Danish control of northern England.

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The Vikings

The Vikings were Scandinavians who raided and traded across Europe from the late 8th to 11th centuries, exploring as far as North America, Iceland, and Greenland. They developed advanced shipbuilding and navigation allowing them to travel widely. Viking raids began in England in the late 8th century targeting wealthy religious sites, and by the late 9th century they had overrun most Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, though Alfred the Great defeated them in 878, establishing Danish control of northern England.

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My topic for today is:The vIkings

Content:1. Who were?

2.What they have accomplished?

3.Vinking invasion on Britain .

1. The Vikings were Scandinavians, who from the late 8th to late 11th centuries, raided and traded
from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of Europe, and explored westwards to
Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland.(the coastal region of Northern America)

Viking Age: 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

2.

 They developed a way to build ships that allowed them to ride high and have flexibility. This
allowed them to sail up rivers and across oceans
 They adopted ways to navigate on the seas that allowed them to explore far away.
 They had a settlement in North America in 900 AD.
 They settled permanently in Iceland and for a few hundred years in Greenland.
 They had advanced weaponry for their day, importing metals from the middle east and
forging them to a high degree of strength.
 The Vikings established and engaged in extensive trading networks throughout the
known world and had a profound influence on the economic development of Europe and
Scandinavia
 the Vikings established most of the nations of Europe. the Saxons, French and Slavic people
were incapable of setting up political units until the Vikings came along and showed them
how.
 The Vikings had a huge impact on the English language.( They settled an area of northeast
England called the Danelaw, north of Wessex, east of Mercia and south of Northumberland.
They spoke a Germanic language, Old Norse, which had many of the same root words as
Saxon) but with different endings. Since both groups had the same root words but different
endings (declensions), both the Vikings and the Saxon English stopped using declensions
altogether so that they could communicate with each other.)

3. Viking raids began in England in the late 8th century, primarily on monasteries. Monasteries and
minster churches were popular targets as they were wealthy and had valuable objects that were
portable. In 867 the great army went north and captured York. By the late 9th century, the Vikings
had overrun most of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England at the time. However,
Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Edington in 878. The resultant
treaty gave the Danes control of northern and eastern England, with Alfred and his successors
controlling Wessex. The last raid on Britain was in 1066,but the Vikings were defeated,because they
were caught unprepared for the battle(killing Hardrada,the leader of the Vikings). This marked the
end of the Vikings in the British Isles.

In conclusion:

The Vikings had an effective society,with rules and laws to keep everything running smoothly along
the territories they had invaded.

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