Ib History notes y1

Vocab/Key

6 history concepts

  • Cause and consequence

  • change and continuity

  • significance

  • perspective


Guided notes VSEPM

  • V: Environment

  • S: society

  • E: economy

  • P: politics

  • M: Military

Unit 1

*Questions for first 2 readings in flashcards

How Vikings Discovered Greenland- Video

  • Greenland is only 20 miles from North America vs 200 from Iceland

  • Initially there were no Native Americans on Greenland’s land

  • Gunnbjörn Ulfsson got thrown offcourse and found greenland from norway— however this was proven false because his vision was distorted Hillingar (Arctic Mirages)

  • Snæbjörn Galti: first person to step foot into greenland, attemted to create first settlement

  • Was killed after getting into argument, this settlement failed

  • Eric the red got into another mans land, and kills many people, gets sentenced 3 years exile

  • Erics father in norway was kicked out 20 yrs ago because he also killed someone

  • Eric went to greenland and explored, and then returned to iceland and tell the citizens abt greenland


9/23 Video: BBC timetable- Viking Cutting Edge technology, Winroth 72-80.6

Norse ship building techniques and materials

  • oakwood to build entire ship

  • split in half, smoothed, shaped, fitted to keel

  • oak is strong and flexible rot resistent follows natrual fibers

  • rounded hell & shallow keel allows them to beach and come close to shore

  • clinker design of overlapping planks allow for less water proofing, makes ship lighter & faster\

  • symmetrical allowing them to directly sail out or in either direction

  • use of square sails- much faster than rowing

  • Inspired by the romans

  • sail made from linen pr wool with animal fats and ochre rubbed in the fabric to seal it

  • square saild worked well with wind in the right direction, but otherwise could push them the wrong way, the slower the more effective, zig zagging

  • oars to help maneuver

  • some ships used maple, birch, and pine

Types of Norse ships

  • Oseberg Norway Longship

  • bulkier ship for transporting goods- knarr

Norse navigational skills

  • focused on coast hugging and river nav first, explored over in open seas

Issues encounteres

  • tough to split the oakwood in half

  • shipwrecks


9/25 What is a perspective?

  • opinion or view on matter

  • way we view things based on experiences and knowledge, emotions playing a role

  • perspectives one might have: NYC, liberal bubble, american, multi-cultural, family-religion-origin, gender race age characteristics, expertise, wealth/social class

Can perspectives be wrong?

  • dependent on perspective- how far off are they

  • depends on how we state it, isw it posited as a universal fact or opinon/belief

how can we ensure accuracy of perspective?

  • manufacturers design

  • sorting through variety of views

  • no 100% certainty of perspectivrd providing full truth


TedTalk video “Facts, Opinions, & Lies”

Which hall mark of understanding perspectives is the most important? why?

  • reliability- perspective must have truthful foundation based on evidence

  • able to understand background/context

  • rationalization- is there academic debate or lies parading as discourse

  • truth is not relative, undisputable, no wiggleroom

  • extra awareness of social media

  • for one group to be right others have to be wrong

How can we distinguish between truth(facts) opinions and lies?

  • deniers denying the experiences the experiencers went through

  • deniers take lies and dress them as opinions

  • take facts and would distort them