The Vikings are coming!

As you know, the vikings were an ancient people from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) who travelled over Europe when nobody dares to move from his land or little village.

They were courageus and rude warriors, but intrepid explorers and brave sailors too.

They sailed from coast to coast, sometimes robbering rich monasteries, but many times knowing differents places, trading with a lot of villages, setting up settlements all over Europe, and even beyond...

See this map: over the year 1000, one viking captain, Leif Eriksson, traveled with his men from Groenland to Terranova in North America!! Being by this way the first european that saw America (almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus).

If you want to learn more about this brave and amazing people you can visit this page.

Now, answer the questions. You can look for the needed information in the same page:

1. See the map, what was the name the vikings used for the new territories they discovered in North America?

2. How were the vikings ships? You can read this

3. What can you tell me about the daily life of the vikings? You can find information here

4. The vikings had a pagan and politheist religion, what was it like? You can answer reading this

5. What the vikings left behind? How can we know about them and their adventures? See this

Now, we can find the vikings in cinema

Or even in comics!

One more thing... the vikings never wear HORNS!

Time Travelling to Middle Age

Hi there boys and girls!

Have you seen the film "Back to the Future"? It's about a young boy like anyone of you, Marty, but with a special friend: a crazy scientist, Doc, who has just invented a Time Machine... and he put it in a Delorean! For the testing travel, the car-time machine must reach 88 miles per hour (about 120 km. per hour). Doc sent his faithful dog Einstein into the past... and it returned to the present without problem.

Now, imagine you are Marty and you can travel to the Middle Age. Your Social Science teacher wants you to do a special activity about tournaments in the middle ages. You must look for adequate clothes so anyone in the past feel anything strange about you... What will you wear?
Besides, you have to describe how the knights fought,

And how many types of tournaments there were

What do you think? It was a funny hobby? or it was dangerous and useless?

If you were a medieval knight, would you partipate in a tournament?

You can see a full armoured knight here

You have a lot of information about tournaments here

You must harry, you only have a few hours until the Delorean loses its energy to return to the future!