Vikings

700's to 1100 is named the Viking age. The Vikings were danish invaders who traveled all over the world and invaded many different countries. They killed many diffrent kings. There were many diffrent types of ships that they built, including the Long Ship. The Long Ship was intended for warfare and exploration. It could hold many people, and sail in very shallow water, right up to the beach. Vikings were fearless worriors. The were buried with wepons, tools and sometimes even ships.​ The most famous Viking was leif Eriksson. Leif landed in North America in the year 1000, which was 500 years before Christopher Columbus but Leif doesn't get any credit for founding America. the Vikings found ad kings first attaked England in the 700's. The vikings took over Ireland in 795. (The Vikings were the ones who named Iceland and Greenland. The story beind the names were that the Vikings would be settling down in Iceland that was actualy very green and lush, and that Greenland was actualy icey. The Vikings did this so that everyone would go to green land thinking that it was green but insteexc when they got there it would be cold!)