Jastorf culture

Jastorf culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Central Europe (Europe) from c. 600 to 1 BCE, a span of 599 years. Its people spoke Germanic languages (Gothic, Frankish, English, German, Dutch, Norse).

Iron Age culture of northern Germany and Jutland, usually linked with the early Germanic peoples. Urn cemeteries and bog iron working mark its sites.

See Jastorf culture on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 600 to 1 BCE

Duration

599 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Central Europe, Europe

Language family

Germanic

Became

• Germanic tribes of Germania c. 100 BCE to 500 CE

Events in Europe during its time

• 508 BCE Athenian democracy
• 480 BCE Battle of Salamis
• 334 BCE Alexander invades Persia
• 218 BCE Hannibal crosses the Alps
• 44 BCE Assassination of Julius Caesar

Neighbours in Europe

• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE
• Roman Empire 27 BCE to 395 CE
• Athens 508 to 322 BCE
• Empire of Alexander the Great 336 to 323 BCE
• Sparta c. 900 to 192 BCE
• Roman Hispania 218 BCE to 472 CE
• Etruscan civilization c. 720 to 90 BCE
• Roman Gaul 50 BCE to 486 CE
• Kingdom of Macedon c. 700 to 168 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Parthian Empire 247 BCE to 224 CE, Middle East
• Xiongnu Empire c. 209 BCE to 93 CE, Central and North Asia
• 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
• Maurya Empire 322 to 185 BCE, South Asia
• Empire of Alexander the Great 334 to 312 BCE, Middle East
• Qin dynasty 221 to 206 BCE, East Asia

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