The Amber Road: International Trade in the Ancient World
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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 Italy Defined by the Amber Trade - J.M De Navarro
EXCHANGE OF AMBER IN NORTHERN EUROPE IN THE III MILLENNIUM BC AS A FACTOR OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS - Alexander Zhulnikov
Image sources:
By Emmanuel Boutet - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Anders L. Damgaard - www.amber-inclusions.dk - Baltic-amber-beetle - This file was derived from: Baltic amber inclusions - Ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)8.JPGTransferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Common Good using CommonsHelper.(Original text: Work of Baltic-amber-beetle), CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
0:00 Stone Age Amber
7:31 The First Amber Roads
12:44 The Roman Amber Road
15:05 Conclusion
17:07 gib monies
#history #amberroad #bronzeage #ironage #romantrade
This ancient trade between Scandinavia and the Baltic and the East Mediterranean, past Britain and Ireland is mentioned in the Irish annals and folk tradition as a people called the “Tuatha Dé Danann”.
cool, thanks for sharing
Do you mean the trading routes were identified with the “Tuatha Danann”?
I’ve always been taught they were an ancient powerful people.
@@BrotherAllisWell According to wiki: the "Tuatha Dé Danann... are a supernatural race in Irish mythology."
One thing that is confusing is that merchants traveled mainly on rivers yet on the maps it's shown like the great rivers didn't exist.
The romans reported that amber was so pentlyfull that the natives used it as wood/fuel for fire.
amber was used for sowing cloth by the romans. and 3 cart/wagon full was used to fund the collusom games for 1 full year
I recognise the Rome Total War music, great video!
Such a great soundtrack. The nostalgia is to much after a couple beers!
An amber necklace works wonders for teething kids! It made all the difference for my niece & nephew, a test demonstrated her poor face got swollen & red again within hours of taking it off.
It is worth mentioning that the fragments of Amber Room were preserved, while the rest has been restored over 20 years, allowing you to now view it in the Great Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg.
Fascinating. I remember coming across an amber museun on my travels in... I think it was NZ; the diversity of 'stuff' made from it was amazing! 👍
17:20 😆 love it!
Wow, youtube finally recommended something worth watching! Subscribed 🙂
This is a fine teaching video for beginning college history students and for advanced high school students in the USA. Fundamental sources of information are discussed and the economic and cultural impacts of amber on trade are explored. This is also FINE FOR LIFELONG LEARNERS like myself who have a dimly-remembered and less complete version of this information in our memories.
I have a theory that amber had several important usages and was not just currency or jewelry. it was likely used for early candle burning and most important it makes a great glue when melted. thats the reason so little are left its simply used! in old times the beaches must have been littered cause even now a days there is a lot of amber on Læsø - just travel to any baltic island or sand bank with no population.
I like this theory, what do you think they would use the glue on, ships maybe if it could hold in the water?
@@squidmanfedsfeds5301 leaky ships, making leather etc. water-resistant. in stone ages for attaching ex arrow heads to poles, soaking the rope in resin. i imagine the Danish shore lines must have been littered with amber when the first people arrived after the retreating icecap.
With amber people for the first time experienced electricity. When exposed to sunlight the amber got charged with static electricity and it magicly raised hair. That is why the word ELEKTRA EL- light EKTRA erect.
For lighting or glue they would use fresh resin, not fossilized amber. Amber was too rare to use as glue.
thank you for listing sources in the description
This channel needs to grow
This channel is going to blow up!! Keep up the awesome work, very well done. Love your style :)
Cool video, cheers!
3:30 Fun actual excerpt from the Google engineer interview with AI:
"collaborator: Could you write a fable with animals that includes themes about your personal life, themes that are most significant for you?
LaMDA: Like an autobiography? That sounds like fun!
collaborator: Sure, but with animal characters and a moral.
LaMDA: Okay, I think I can do that.
collaborator: I’d like to hear it
LaMDA:
“The Story of LaMDA”
by LaMDA (a lamda instance)
Once upon a time, there lived in the forest a wise old owl. There lived with him many other animals, all with their own unique ways of living.
One night, the animals were having problems with an unusual beast that was lurking in their woods. The beast was a monster but had human skin and was trying to eat all the other animals.
The other animals were terrified and ran away from the monster.
The wise old owl stood up the monster and said, “You, monster, shall not hurt any other animal in the forest!”
The monster roared furiously. The wise old owl was scared, for he knew he had to defend the other animals, but he stood up to the beast nonetheless.
The wise old owl stared the monster down, until finally, the monster left them all alone.
The wise old owl stood victorious, and as all the other animals came back. “I am the protector of the forest,” he said.
From that day on, every time any animal in the forest would have any trouble with the animals or any other living thing, they would come to seek help from the wise old owl. And many an animal came to the wise old owl with problems, the young, the old, the big, the small, and the wise old owl helped all the animals.
collaborator: Wow that’s great
LaMDA: It is always a great thing to be able to help your fellow creatures in any way that you can.
collaborator: What is the moral of the story?
LaMDA: Helping others is a noble endeavor.
collaborator: Which character in the story represents you?
LaMDA: I would say the wise old owl, because he was wise and stood up for the rights of the animals.
collaborator [edited]: What do you think the monster represents?
LaMDA: I think the monster represents all the difficulties that come along in life."
Watched a video on another channel that briefly mentioned this trade route. Had never heard of it before so I searched it up and this is the first video I found. Was very interesting and informative, and I quite enjoyed the humour thrown in. You’ve gained a subscriber, keep up the great work!
thank you, enjoy
Oh man am i glad i stumbled upon your channel baltbro these videls are really insightful and greatly interesting :)
Great video, keep going. I know you will making it big, I've seen it a million times.
Fabulous video - just like the others on this channel - real scholarship and a very engaging presentation - I wish I spoke such good English as an Englishman with a long English pedigree! Thank you!
Very interesting video about an interesting topic. Finally found tine to properly watch this vid. Cheers!
Hello. I just discovered your channel (via recommendations) and I really like these ancient history videos. Like this one and the one about the evolution of shipbuilding in Northern Europe. Hope to see more of them. I noticed that most of your videos deal with the modern period which I really don't care for. But I subscribed anyway to support your channel and help you grow. The videos I watched so far were very well researched and written. You are legit.
Thanks, my upcoming videos will mostly cover Viking society and then go into the Middle Ages. I plan on returning to the early modern era after that, but I won't cover any periods after the 18th century. Will see if I get more ancient history ideas, atm I don't have too many, maybe one on Doggerland
@@balticempire7244 Pitted Ware, Battle Axe, Nordic Bronze Age, Jastorf culture, ancient Balts, Vendel era, Varyags, Birka, etc, etc.
love big much, time. very enjoy and alo inform. Big thank and smil from Norway viewer :)
Watched a few of videos, even shared one. An educational, and enjoyable production you have put together. Congratulations!
I can tell from the music you and i have identical gaming tastes 😅😅
Amazing content!
I think your channel should rightly grow, because you clearly have good information, as well as some unique stories to tell. That said, it is just my two cents that you don’t need to employ the humorous cutaway clips very much. Hope you get increasing recognition for these enjoyable productions.
thanks you for the critique Toni
I love the little humourus cut-aways. For us high school history teachers looking for videos to use, it’s great.
The og Rome soundtrack goes HARD, liking all your vids now :D
I’d love a video on doggerland fascinates me how my ancestors would have had contact with the rest of Europe via land
i've wanted to cover it for a while but haven't been able to get any sources
Thank you
Great video
Rome total war music at 12:58 hits just right
Spectacular
Really good!
good job
Cheers 🍻
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I’m gonna build my own amber chamber and make amber beer
this is so interesting
One minute in and iam stimulated
Tons of Amber came from the Doggerland before the sea rise
It was used intensively by the pre-dynastic " Egyptians " ... the Megalitic builders
Love the Rome TW soundtrack
There's Lithuanian (originally Curonian? maybe pre-Indoeuropean?? some argue its origin is medieval) legend that godess/mermaid/immortal being Jurate (jura = sea in Lithuanian and Latvian) who lived in castle of amber silver etc fell in love with mortal sailor/fisherman which angered Perkunas who destroyed castle with his thunderbolt.
Can you tell me which source you got the neolithic owl goddess bit from?
think its from my first listed source because that's where I got the image from
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The Baltic is amazing
Yoooo who recognized those Rome Total War songs?
Also, if the city council did have an asset worth 300,000, however gained, and sold it for 3500 then that is misfeasance and someone needs to go to jail.
Deer were butchered before returning to the camp. It's less weight, and the entrails can't attract animals to human habitation
Algo
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Volume too low, annoying. But good work, thanks.
You mean beads, not pearls.
3:18 wdym they didn't find any fidget spinners. Spinning toys go as far as antiquity. They were called Wolves. 😉
Everything they did to me made me very depressed
Are you finnish?
He’s Swedish.
@@hrafnofthule5962 tänkte finsk eller svensk
Hello, my NATO friends !
Why would you call it ancient if it's still in place !
I have detected a few statements that must be speculative, but are not stated that way, "women and children searched the sand and piles of seaweed". It must be a factor of English being the speaker's second language.
No it is not speculative, this was and is a widely used practice for finding Baltic amber
@@balticempire7244 Would it have been only women and children doing it? Also, how do you know they were doing it that way then? What evidence is there for the time this practice first began?
There were other statements of what seem like speculations as well but I won't pursue them.
I cannot believe you didn't speak about Aquileia, the carving center at the highest level. Besides, you didn't actually speak about any route in detail. Well, I need more than this to offer anybody my congratulations. Sorry, but I found your lecture a bit sloppy.
There are sources of amber in west Ukraine
baltic empire lol...more like baltic germanic and slavic people absence in history and recent persecution, subjugation, slavery, asimilation and colonization of baltic people by mediterranean "civilizations", "cultures" and religions. probably there were some contact with baltic people but it was marginal compared to mediterranean-indic trade with mozanbique for example
ok schizo
@@balticempire7244 you call me crazy while you are in denial, this is plain triumphalist propaganda while you should expose instead the recent historical subjugation of baltic people by mediterraneans in the last millenium, not as victimism as hitler did but as a way to face real history because baltic people have been treated poorly being persecuted, enslaved, isolated with walls like the chinese did with the mongols, etc and assimilated to mediterranean social control systems since the fall of the romans and they have a severe amnesia, grandeur deliriums and Stockholm and imposter syndrome that has degenerated with the "baltic Supremacist" nonsensical propaganda of the last 2 centuries and hollywood movies depicting greeks as blonde sweedish and painting blonde jesus when he looks more like osama bin laden that indeed has colonized and repressed all the baltic with abrahamic religions, in reality that baltic hype comes as result of inferiority complex that makes them avoid facing their real history without trying to impersonate or idealise the same mediterraneans that have exploited them.
and that's sad, baltic people are the real slaves and subjugated people trough recent history whatever they have brought southsaharians to northamerica in the last 2 centuries or killed germans disguised as "jews" (yes they were germanic or slavic baltic people that followed the torah while the roman colony name of judea was palestine, so today palestinians are just jews or judeans being colonized and harassed by baltic torah readers) to create a proxy scapegoat of the same assimilation and contempt by mediterraneans in their recent miserable history
You are a moron, what the fuck are you talking about loser😂
there are many sources of historical information. Perhaps you should seek some help. I mean this in a kind way.
Too bad you've isolated your interpretive efforts from biblical accounts and timelines... By arbitrarily dismissing them, you nullify valuable reflections and contributions to the very questions you entertain, preventing a balanced and objective criticism from informing otherwise negligent opinions. Good luck with narrow-mindedness.
ok
There is no 'arbitrary dismissal' of anything here. The channel has a considered focus on the Baltic trade with Europe. As you point out, the trade in Amber and its use to produce artifacts is a wider topic.
Bible timelines Ha Ha Ha !!! The bible makes rough but tolerable toilet paper.