To Your Viking
Leif Ericsson, the Vikings
and the Hanseatic League
Anthony Notaroberta Jr., Harrison Gerstenlauer,
Harvey Cheung, Michael Slutsky and Spiro
Leif Ericsson
-Leif Ericsson, son of Eric the Red,
was born in and exiled from
Iceland, and so set sail in search
for a new home.
-Leif and his crew sailed the coast
of Greenland, until they reached
Newfoundland.
-Leif named the area he lived in,
Vinland, after the vines crops grew on.
Leif Ericsson
-One of Leif Ericsson's first voyages was east
to Norway.
- While in Norway, he and his men were taught
the foundations of Christianity, and they
converted.
- Returning to Greenland, he taught the people
of his new religion.
- Wherever he went, Leif brought Christianity
with him to newly traveled lands.
The Vikings
-The Vikings were Germanic people from
Scandinavia, who built settlements in Iceland
and Greenland.
-They terrorized towns along the coasts and
rivers of Europe on their longships, murdering
villagers and looting and burning towns.
The Vikings
-The Vikings from Denmark
invaded eastern Britain and
northwest France in the eighth
century.
-Vikings from Norway
established a Norse kingdom
in Ireland in 865.
-This kingdom lasted until a stronger group of Vikings
of Norman descent arrived in Ireland in 1169.
-In the tenth century, Eric the Red left Iceland and
settled in their new territory, Greenland.
The Vikings
-They entered Russia
during the eighth century
beginning Viking trade,
as opposed to plundering.
-Products traded included
gold, clothes, wine and
fruits from the Greeks; silver and horses from
the Czechs and Hungarians; furs, wax, honey
and slaves from Russia; and silk and spices
from Constantinople.
Hanseatic League
-The Hanseatic League was an important,
well-developed trade network in the Baltic
Sea and the North Sea that dominated
commercial activity in northern Europe.
-The league was a series of trading cities
stretching from Novgorod to London.
-As a result of the league, the commercial
significance of Poland, Northern Germany
and Scandinavia were embraced.
Hanseatic League
-The Hanseatic League sought to organize and control
trade throughout the region by winning commercial
privileges and monopolies and by establishing
bases overseas.
-Because it was only a trading league, rather than a
political organization, peace had to be ensured by
suppressing warfare between members and robbery
on the roads. It is because of this decentralization
that the league declined.
-The principle trade consisted of grain, timber, furs, tar,
honey and flax. Additional trade included cloth,
copper, iron ore and herring.
Quiz
1. From where did Leif Ericsson
originate?
a. Greenland
b. Iceland
c. Vinland
d. Newfoundland
Quiz
Answer:
b. Iceland
Quiz
2. Which religion did Leif Ericsson
convert to and spread?
a. Judaism
b. Islam
c. Christianity
d. Hinduism
Quiz
Answer:
c. Christianity
Quiz
3. From where did the Vikings
originate?
a. England
b. France
c. Germany
d. Scandinavia
Quiz
Answer:
d. Scandinavia
Quiz
4. Where did the Vikings not invade?
a. Norway
b. Britain
c. France
d. Ireland
Quiz
Answer:
a. Norway
Quiz
5. What did the Vikings not trade?
a. horses
b. furs
c. slaves
d. oil
Quiz
Answer:
d. oil
Quiz
6. Where weren’t there Hanseatic
League trade routes?
a. England
b. Spain
c. Russia
d. Poland
Quiz
Answer:
b. Spain
Quiz
7. What was not a major problem faced
by the Hanseatic League?
a. lack of trading cities
b. lack of government organization
c. robbery on trade routes
d. warfare between members
Quiz
Answer:
a. lack of trading cities
Quiz
8. Which of these was not a historical
significance of Leif Ericsson?
a. discovery of Newfoundland
b. the founding of Vinland
c. the establishment of centralized rule
d. the spread of Christianity
Quiz
Answer:
c. the establishment of centralized rule
Quiz
9. Which of these was not a historical
significance of the Vikings?
a. the settling of Iceland
b. the settling of Greenland
c. the expansion of Northern European
trade
d. the end of Norse kingdoms
Quiz
Answer:
d. the end of Norse kingdoms
Quiz
10. Which of these is not a historical
significance of the Hanseatic
League?
a. the domination of trade in Europe
b. the end of economic expansion
c. the emergence of commercial cities
d. the connection of major cities
Quiz
Answer:
b. the end of economic expansion