Trade Aspect
The Roman Empire depended on trade in many different ways, such as the import of grain. This was especially the case in the early periods of the Roman Empire. Lynn F. Pitts wrote: ”…At all periods Rome needed to have some kind of relationship, friendly or otherwise, with her neighbours…”. It's thus very likely that a lot of the Roman objects found in Scandinavia arrived via trade and trade networks.
This trade may have been carried out via already existing trade networks, from the Mediterranean, via Germanic Chieftains to Scandinavia. These trade networks may have been established prior to the Roman Empire and suggest a complex and advanced social structure and organisation among the Germanic tribes and societies. Scandinavian amber has been found at Mycene, in Greece. This brings the term "tribe" into question, many archaeologists have abandoned this term because it provides a faulty image of the Germanics. This term may envision an image of Germanics as primitive people.
Read more about this topic: Germanic-Roman Contacts
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