The Amber Road: International Trade in the Ancient World

Join our Discord: Support me on Patreon: Amber has been used as a currency in the Baltic, ever since the Neolithic Era. During the Bronze Age, a trade network opened up between the Baltic and Mediterranean, the northeners exchanging their amber for bronze: the material with which to advance their societies. So too would the road transfer cultural and religious trends. This is a video on how concepts deemed relatively modern to us, like international trade and currency, would appear considerably older. Sources: Stenen som flyter och brinner - Åke Dahlström Leif Brost Finlands Historia - Torsten Edgren, Lena Törnblom Amber in the Ancient Near East - Graciela Gesto Singer The Balts and Amber - Eugenijus Jovaiša Connected Histories: the Dynamics of Bronze Age Interaction and Trade 1500–1100 BC - Kristian Kristiansen and Paulina Suchowska-Ducke Prehistoric Routes between Northern Europe and Ita