Skill Issue
Gone Viking
Spreading Across the Pacific
Important Terms
100

This person discovers and analyses artifacts

What is an archaeologist?

100

A person who is raiding

What is a Viking?

100

Means "Many islands"

What is Polynesia?

100

Letters of the Viking writing system, carved into wood, stone, or metal.

What are runes?

200

These can include diaries, photographs, and physical objects

What is a primary source?

200

Norway, Sweden, Denmark

What is Scandinavia?

200

Main method of travelling

What is a canoe?

200

A religion practiced by Vikings before Christianity, worshipping gods like Odin, Thor, and Freyja.

What is "pagan"?

300

These include textbooks, websites and the interpretation of other people

What is a secondary source?

300

A meeting held regularly, where decisions were made

What is a Thing?

300

The people of New Zealand

Who are the Maori?

300

The place where Vikings first raided England

What is Lindisfarne?

400

Means "around the time"

What is circa?

400

Stories originally passed down verbally, finally written down in the 13th Century by Snorri Stirluson

What are sagas?

400

The Polynesians believe this spiritual power is in all living things

What is mana?

400

The skill of finding direction and location at sea, often using stars, ocean currents, and bird patterns.

What is wayfinding?
500
Something from outside its time

What is an anachronism?

500

The name of the gods of the sky

Who were the Aesir?

500

The place where many historians believe the Polynesians spread from, based on archaeological finds of the Lapita People

What is Taiwan?

500

A large ocean-going vessel used by Polynesians for exploration, migration, and fishing.

What is a waka?