PRESENTATION OUTLINE
What was it?
The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber from coastal areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What products were being transported?
AMBER.
As an important raw material, sometimes dubbed "the gold of the north", amber was transported from the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts overland by way of the Vistula and Dnieper rivers to Italy, Greece, the Black Sea, Syria and Egypt thousands of years ago, and long after.
Time Period
From at least the sixteenth century BC amber was moved from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean area. The breast ornament of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen (ca. 1333-1324 B.C.E.) contains large Baltic amber beads
Countries involved
-Central Europe
-Germany
-Switzerland
-The Netherlands
-Belgium
-France
-Southern France
-Spain
SOME OTHER NAMES
Croatian: Jantarski put
Czech: Jantarová stezka
German: Bernsteinstraße
Estonian: Merevaigutee
Finnish: Meripihkatie
French: Route de l'ambre
Hungarian: Borostyánút
Italian: Via dell'Ambra
Latvian: Dzintara Ceļš
Lithuanian: Gintaro kelias
Polish: Szlak Bursztynowy or Jantarowy Szlak
Russian: Янтарный путь
Serbian: Ćilibarski put
Slovak: Jantárová cesta
Slovene: Jantarjeva pot
How trade has changed this area:
The amber road has changed the area by providing a known route that any people take today.
