Nordic Bronze Age

Nordic Bronze Age appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Scandinavia and the Baltic (Europe) from c. 1700 to 500 BCE, a span of 1,200 years. Its people spoke Germanic languages (Gothic, Frankish, English, German, Dutch, Norse).

Chiefdoms of Denmark, Sweden and Norway that traded amber for copper and tin and left rock carvings of ships, bronze lurs and the Trundholm sun chariot. Probably the cradle of Proto-Germanic.

See Nordic Bronze Age on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 1700 to 500 BCE

Duration

1,200 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Scandinavia and the Baltic, Europe

Language family

Germanic

Came from

• Battle Axe culture c. 2800 to 2300 BCE

Became

• Pre-Roman Iron Age (Scandinavia) c. 500 BCE to 1 CE

Events in Europe during its time

• 1600 BCE Thera eruption
• 1200 BCE Late Bronze Age collapse
• 776 BCE First Olympic Games
• 753 BCE Traditional founding of Rome
• 508 BCE Athenian democracy

Neighbours in Europe

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE
• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE
• Athens 508 to 322 BCE
• Sparta c. 900 to 192 BCE
• Etruscan civilization c. 720 to 90 BCE
• Kingdom of Macedon c. 700 to 168 BCE
• Syracuse c. 734 to 212 BCE
• Mycenaean Greece c. 1600 to 1100 BCE
• Roman Kingdom c. 753 to 509 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE, North and West Africa
• Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE, Middle East
• Old Babylonian Empire 1894 to 1595 BCE, Middle East
• Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE, Middle East
• Achaemenid Empire 550 to 330 BCE, Middle East

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