This Kapow pupil video is part of the Kapow History scheme of work. It explores how the Vikings used trade to get the things they couldn’t make themselves, and how trading helped them travel, learn and grow as a society. Pupils will discover that the Vikings traded goods like timber, furs, and amber for items such as spices, wine, and silver, and used their impressive longboats to sail across the seas on important trading routes.

The video explains the five key Viking trade routes, from the North Atlantic to the Baltic and Black Seas, showing what goods were exchanged and which regions were involved. Pupils learn how these journeys not only helped the Vikings become wealthy but also brought about cultural exchange. They picked up new ideas, built relationships with foreign communities, and even established settlements in new lands, all through the power of trade.

The video is designed to be shown to pupils as part of History, Mixed-age, *New* Y5/6 (A): British history 4: Were the Vikings raiders, traders or something else? Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Where did the Vikings go? How did they get there?