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9.3 Viking home life and work
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Check your learning 9.3
Remember and understand
1 Why were Viking villages often located near coastlines or rivers?
2 Why were Viking longhouses smelly?
3 What connection does the doona on your bed have to a Viking longhouse?
Apply and analyse
4 Explain how social classes might have been obvious among a band of raiding Vikings.
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5 Think about some of the silver bracelets made today. Rate the metal bracelet shown in Source 4
against modern jewellery in terms of its design and craftsmanship. What do you conclude?
Evaluate and create
6 Make a labelled sketch showing a modification you would make to the longhouse shown in Source 2 to
make its interior more suitable as the hall of a Viking ruler