ИСТИНА

We can identify six growth/decline periods of long distance trade activity in Eastern Europe in II millennium BC - early CE. The subject of exchange forming a long distance trade system in the early Bronze Age was the metal. The first rise (XVIII-XIII BC) was connected with the recovery of Finno-Ugric and Indo-European colonization and with the transition to Late Bronze technologies. The decline (XII - IX BC) is associated with the Bronze Age collapse and the transition to the iron metallurgy. New rise (VIII-III BC) is associated with the formation of the Greek trade system. The subject of export from Eastern Europe became the grain. The decline of trade activity began in II BC. The next rise (II-IV AD) is associated with the formation of Roman trade system. The roman silver became a main import subject into the Eastern Europe.