OCR GCSE History B: World period study — Viking Expansion, c.750–c.1050

What is included

What this course covers

• Section 1 — Homelands

  • 1.1 – The Vikings in Scandinavia: landscape, society and everyday life
  • 1.2 – Viking ships, seafaring and trade c.750
  • 1.3 – Viking beliefs and rituals

• Section 2 — Volga Vikings

  • 2.1 – The changing nature of Viking (Rus) trade and settlement in Russia from c.750
  • 2.2 – The nature of Viking trade and interaction with the Arab world
  • 2.3 – Viking relations with Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire

• Section 3 — Raiders and Invaders

  • 3.1 – Viking raids in Britain, Ireland, the Scottish Islands and France, 793–850
  • 3.2 – The nature of Viking warfare: warships, warriors and tactics
  • 3.3 – The ‘great heathen army’ in England and the establishment of Danelaw, 865–879

• Section 4 — Settlers

  • 4.1 – The nature and extent of Viking settlement in the British Isles and France
  • 4.2 – Viking life in Jorvik
  • 4.3 – Viking settlement across the Atlantic: Iceland, Greenland and North America

• Section 5 — Kings

  • 5.1 – Harald Bluetooth, Jelling and the conversion of the Vikings to Christianity
  • 5.2 – Svein Forkbeard and his invasions of England
  • 5.3 – Cnut’s Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, 1016–1035

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