Online Magazine THE VICIOUS VIKINGS
Student Generated Investigative Questions
Why did they have to be so murderous/ violent?
What were their motives/ intentions when killing people [as they killed so many]? Did they have friends/ alliances? Did they kill their 'friends'?
What weapons did they use? What were they made of? Where did they get the materials?
Why did they carve so many designs/ pictures around their living areas? What tools did they use to carve? How did they do the artwork etc?
Were they civilized? What was their culture like if they had any? What were their homes like? Living conditions?
Why did they build such beautiful/ elaborate prows for their ships?
What form of order/ king/ government did they have?
Did they have a capital city or meeting point for them as they were so spread out?
What laws or rules did they follow?
Society/ ranks? How did their economy work?
How did they use their coins? Were they used as currency?
What God's did they worship? What did they believe in?
What did they do with their dead bodies?
When did they live and when did they die out? Where did they originally come from? How did their era end? How much of the world did they conquer? Did they accept outsiders?
What present day countries did they live in?
What are the famous stories about the Vikings? Any famous historical characters & what are their stories?
How were they discovered? what historical evidence do we have of their existence?
What other civilizations existed simultaneously across the world during this time?
10 facts -Erik the Red