Tagar culture

Tagar culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Western Siberia and the Altai (Central and North Asia) from c. 800 to 200 BCE, a span of 600 years. Its people spoke Iranian languages (Median, Persian, Parthian, Scythian, Sogdian, Pashto, Kurdish).

Scythian-type herders of the Minusinsk basin who built thousands of kurgans with stone walls and cast bronze daggers and animal-style ornaments.

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Facts

Dates: c. 800 to 200 BCE
Duration: 600 years
Type: People or culture
Region: Western Siberia and the Altai, Central and North Asia
Language family: Iranian

Events in Central and North Asia during its time

530 BCE Cyrus the Great killed by the Massagetae
327 BCE Alexander marries Roxana

Neighbours in Central and North Asia

Xiongnu Empire c. 209 BCE to 93 CE
Sogdiana c. 545 BCE to 722 CE
Kingdom of Khotan c. 200 BCE to 1006 CE
Bactria (Achaemenid satrapy) c. 545 to 330 BCE
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom c. 256 to 125 BCE
Ancient Chorasmia c. 600 BCE to 305 CE
Kangju c. 200 BCE to 450 CE
Jushi kingdom c. 200 BCE to 450 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE, Europe
Parthian Empire 247 BCE to 224 CE, Middle East
Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE, Europe
Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE, Middle East
Ptolemaic Kingdom 305 to 30 BCE, North and West Africa
Achaemenid Empire 550 to 330 BCE, Middle East
Western Han 202 BCE to 9 CE, East Asia
Athens 508 to 322 BCE, Europe
Maurya Empire 322 to 185 BCE, South Asia

Questions

When did Tagar culture exist?

c. 800 to 200 BCE, about 600 years. These dates are approximate, because the evidence for its beginning or end is uncertain.

Where was Tagar culture?

Western Siberia and the Altai, in Central and North Asia.

What language did Tagar culture speak?

Iranian. This family includes Median, Persian, Parthian, Scythian, Sogdian, Pashto, Kurdish.