Teach any OCR B module : Viking Expansion, c.750–c.1050, no prep needed!
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Every OCR B topic is covered, and each module comes complete with:
Component 3: Period study, Viking Expansion, c.750–c.1050
What students need to learn:
- Homelands
- The Vikings in Scandinavia: landscape, society and everyday life
- Viking ships, seafaring and trade c.750
- Viking beliefs and rituals
- Volga Vikings
- The changing nature of Viking (Rus) trade and settlement in Russia from c.750
- The nature of Viking trade and interaction with the Arab world
- Viking relations with Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire
- Raiders and Invaders
- The nature and causes of Viking raids in Britain, Ireland, the Scottish Islands and France, 793–850
- The nature of Viking warfare: warships, warriors and tactics
- The ‘great heathen army’ in England and the establishment of Danelaw, 865–879
- Settlers
- The nature and extent of Viking settlement in the British Isles and France
- Viking life in Jorvik
- The nature and extent of Viking settlement across the Atlantic including Iceland, Greenland and North America
- Kings
- Harald Bluetooth, Jelling and the conversion of the Vikings to Christianity
- Svein Forkbeard and his invasions of England
- Cnut’s Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, 1016–1035
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