Viking

first people in Norway were the Vikings, who founded settlements that are still around today. After the Vikings, it became a unified nation with many kings to rule them. Around the middle of the 1300s, Norway became unified with Denmark. A few centuries later, Norway gained its independence. It also suffered much destruction from World War II, but has recovered well. Norway is a nation with a significant history that has shaped Norway into what it is today. The Vikings settled and founded…

Four social classes existed in Viking society. There was the Kings, the Jarls, Karls, and Thralls. At the top of the social pyramid there was the wealthy and the royal, the King's. Kings in Viking culture had to have royal blood, and were chosen from the royal family. Many kings claimed to be descendants of the Viking gods, making him seem more powerful and more respected. The Kings gained most of their revenue from collecting taxes from royal estates, and gaining most of their property from…

Although, much like the rest of her is turning out to be, she is not sounding quite like I'd expected. Instead of the Viking stereotype I envisioned when hearing her primal, berserker grunt. Though I must admit, for all the femininity I can trace in this voice, there is still more power behind it than any other I've listened too over the years. Hmm, seems as though she…

1.) The first artifact that show evidence of ritualism in Ancient China the Mao Gong Ding. This artifact shows how successful of a ruler King Li and King Xuan were. It was also something to represent how ethical of a ruler they were. This artifact was created by Duke of Mao, who was assigned by King Xuan to take care of all governing matters. The Duke of Mao created this piece of work to honor King Li and his reign. The Mao Gong Ding is a big three – legged cauldron made out of bronze (bronze…

the bravest and most impactful Vikings in History, Lief Erickson, where his bravery led him from Greenland all the way to Canada, where he and his crew established the Vinland settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows and became the first European settlement, let alone Viking settlement to reach North America. Although there has been controversy over the validity of the Vikings reaching North America, the excavation of L'Anse aux Meadows in the 1960's gave yield…

Viking ½. Nasa’s Viking project found its place in US history when it became the first American mission to make it to the surface of Mars. Two of the same spaceships were built, each containing an orbiter and a lander. Th spacecraft’s both flew together when they entered the orbit of Mars. The landers separated and the began the decent to the surface of the rusty red planet known as Mars. Viking 1 touched down in the southern hemisphere while Viking 2 lander made it way to Utopia Planitea.…

Nanjing Road (Tourist Entertainment) The Nanjing Road is going to be one of my first visits in China. It’s about 3.4 miles long and runs east to west. It’s a major shopping street with large attractions for fashion-seeking people. According to Nanjing Road by Travel China Guide, the Nanjing Road began “Importing large quantities of foreign goods, it became the earliest shopping street of the city.” There’s over six hundred businesses along this street, all of which are uniquely different and…

The viking attack on Paris in 885 was a splendid representation of medieval warfare. Where the two sides met beforehand in order to attempt a relatively peaceful solution, where the viking Siegfried asked, basically, for all the goods of the city and the bishop responded with the obvious ‘no’. The battles themselves were showing how the defenders of Paris held their city from the vikings for just long enough so that Odo could return with aid from the emperor to finally drive off the vikings.…

acceptable means of distinguishing female from male graves. In 1991 Judith Jesch wrote the first book in English to explore the lives of Scandinavian women from 800-1100, Women in the Viking Age. The work takes a multidisciplinary approach in order to investigate the varying roles and activities of Viking women within their society. Jesch considers archaeological evidence, runic inscriptions, foreign chronicles, art and a narrative…

Compare the Viking attempts to conquer/colonize in the Americas around 1000 to the Spanish efforts during the first half of the sixteenth century (1500s). Why did the Vikings fail to establish a lasting settlement in North America? Why did the Spanish succeed? When the Vikings attempted to colonize in the Americas, Leif Erickson, who founded the Iceland settlement and the Greenland settlement, was the first Viking to do so. He was the Viking who went to Canada. He named the area Vinland due to…