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Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 18 of 28

The Vikings

Longships, raids, trade and settlement

What your child practises

Children learn where the Vikings came from, how they raided, traded and settled across Europe and the North Atlantic, and how they reached North America.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 8-KP-050 · the Viking invasions and their impact on Europe from the ninth to twelfth centuries

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    The Viking Age is usually dated…

    • 1500 to 1800 CE
    • 1900 to 2000 CE
    • 500 to 100 BCE
    • from the late 700s to the 1000s CE

  2. Question 2

    The Vikings' impact on Europe included…

    • the end of farming
    • the fall of Rome
    • raids, settlement, new towns and trade routes
    • no change

  3. Question 3

    What did Viking towns like Dublin and York become?

    • ghost towns
    • forts only
    • temples only
    • important trading centres

  4. Question 4

    Besides raiding, many Vikings were also…

    • only priests
    • only scribes
    • traders, farmers and settlers
    • only miners

  5. Question 5

    The area of France called Normandy is named for…

    • a Greek city
    • a Roman governor
    • an Inuit word
    • the Northmen (Norsemen)

  6. Question 6

    In Viking society, which group had the most farmers and workers?

    • none
    • free commoners
    • kings
    • jarls

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