Question

Both the article on Amazons and the one on Vikings use discoveries in grave sites to connect myth to facts and develop a better understanding of women warriors. These discoveries threaten modern understandings of gender roles. Give examples from both texts that show how the grave site discoveries tell a very different story from what society claims are the roles for men and women

Answer 1

Amazonian and Viking civilizations found a connection about the presence of woman warriors. These discoveries has certain amount of mysteries about the role of women.

Explanation:

No.1. Woman of that age were somewhat desperate. They played an important role in society.

No. 2. These discoveries threatened our regular understandings about their role as compared to men. Women were equally significant.

No.3. Men were kept engaged in the bringing and nurturing up of a family with utmost care. Women would help them in different ways, though producing babies were their special responsibility.