Pre-Roman Iron Age (Scandinavia)

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

A colder period when local bog iron replaced imported bronze in Denmark and Sweden. Tollund Man and the Hjortspring war canoe date from this time.

See Pre-Roman Iron Age (Scandinavia) on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 500 BCE to 1 CE

Duration

500 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Scandinavia and the Baltic, Europe

Language family

Germanic

Came from

• Nordic Bronze Age c. 1700 to 500 BCE

Became

• Roman Iron Age (Scandinavia) c. 1 to 400 CE

Events in Europe during its time

• 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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