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Test your knowledge of history
Tick what you think is correct.
Purpose:
Many people know more about history than they initially think. Film and TV, books, stories from their own town, knowledge of the development of their own profession or simply grandparents' stories from childhood. By looking at historical objects, we can activate our memory and discuss our immediate approach to history. In this task, you are presented with a series of pictures. In each picture you see one or more objects. When you have looked at all the pictures, try to assess and argue from which historical period the objects originate.
Here you will get a brief overview of the periods that Danish history is generally divided into:
Mesolithic
12000 BC to 3400 BC
Neolithic
3400 BC to 1800 BC
Bronze Age
1800 BC to 400 BC
Iron Age
400 BC to 800 AD
Viking Age
800 AD to 1050 AD
Middle Ages
1050 AD to 1500
Renaissance
1500 to 1660
Absolution and wars with Sweden
1660 to 1780
Reforms, Industrialization and democracy.
1780 to 1900
World War and economic crisis 1930s
1900 to 1940
The occupation
1940 to 1945
Cold War and beginning prosperity.
1945 to 1990
Period 1:
Period 1:
A. Viking Age
A. Viking Age
B. Renaissance
B. Renaissance
Period 2:
Period 2:
A. Middle Ages
A. Middle Ages
B. World War and economic crisis.
B. World War and economic crisis.
Period 3:
Period 3:
A. Middle Ages
A. Middle Ages
B. Renaissance
B. Renaissance
Period 4:
Period 4:
A. Cold War and welfare state
A. Cold War and welfare state
B. Interwar period and occupation
B. Interwar period and occupation
Period 5:
Period 5:
A. Viking Age
A. Viking Age
B. Neolithic Age
B. Neolithic Age
Period 6:
Period 6:
A. Cold War
A. Cold War
B. Interwar period and occupation
B. Interwar period and occupation
Period 7:
Period 7:
A. Occupation
A. Occupation
B. Nation-state and democracy
B. Nation-state and democracy
Period 8:
Period 8:
A. Middle Ages
A. Middle Ages
B. Absolute monarchy
B. Absolute monarchy
Period 9:
Period 9:
A. Cold War
A. Cold War
B. Enlightenment
B. Enlightenment
Period 10:
Period 10:
A. Bronze Age
A. Bronze Age
B. Neolithic Age
B. Neolithic Age
Answers to Quiz Test your Knowledge
Questions about Nordic History.
These are more challenging tasks with questions related to Nordic history. They are very classic questions from a book about the exam in the Danish primary schools in the 1940s.
Use the internet or encyclopedias and find the answers!
1. Name the four "stænder" or social groups that existed in Denmark in the Middle Ages?
2. When did the Union between Norway and Sweden end?
3. What were the names of Valdemar Sejrs Queens?
4. When did Denmark cede South Jutland to Prussia?
5. When did Denmark lose Norway?
6. When was the Great Nordic War?
7. What was the name of the union they established after World War I to avoid new wars?
8. Name a few famous rune stones.
9. Who was the woman Dyveke?
10. What is Hans Tavsen known for?
11. Which king was behind the bloodbath in Stockholm?
12. Where did Danish Vikings go on expeditions?
13. Name a few buildings that Christian IV built?
14. Who may have started the construction of the wall Danevirke?
15. When was the Congress of Vienna and which Danish king participated?
16. When was the "Stavnsbåndet" abolished and what reforms came at that time?
17. Who and when did Luther's teachings become a state religion in Denmark?
18. What was Herluf Trolle known for?
19. Who was Johan Rantzau?
20. What do the terms Drost and Marsk cover?
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