Germanic tribes

EARLY IRON AGE

750 BCE

In Northernmost Europe, in what now constitutes the European plains of Denmark and southern Scandinavia, is where the Germanic peoples most likely originated; a region that remained "remarkably stable" as far back as the Neolithic Age, when humans first began controlling their environment through the use of agriculture and the domestication of animals.By as early as 750 BCE, archeological evidence gives the impression that the Germanic people were becoming more uniform in their culture.

LINGUISTICS

500 BCE

Linguists postulate that an early proto-Germanic language existed and was distinguishable from the other Indo-European languages as far back as 500 B.C.E.

PYTHEAS

325 BCE

One of the earliest known written records of the Germanic world in classical times was in the lost work of Pytheas (fl. 4th century BCE). It is believed that Pytheas traveled to northern Europe c.  325 BCE, and his observations about the geographical environment, traditions and culture of the northern European .

BASTARNAE

201 BCE

In 201–202 BC, the Macedonians under the leadership of King Philip V, conscripted the Bastarnae as soldiers to fight against the Romans in the Second Macedonian War.

MIGRATION PERIOD

5 BCE

Before considering the later migration of various Germanic peoples in the 5th century, it is worth noting that the first recorded great migration of a Germanic tribe

COLLISION WITH ROME

2 BCE

Late in the 2nd century BCE, Roman sources recount the migrating Germanic people of Gaul, Italy and Hispania who invaded areas considered part of Imperial Rome

ROMAN EMPIRE PERIOD

9

The Augustean period there wasas a result of Roman activity as far as the Elbe Rivera first definition of the "Germania magna": from the Rhine and Danube rivers in the West and South to the Vistula and the Baltic Sea in the East and North. In 9 CE, a revolt of their Germanic subjects headed by the supposed Roman .

Etónim

190

En aproximadament 222 aC,el primer ús del termini llatí ´ GERMANI´ apareix en el Fastos Capitolins inscripció de Galleis ,que pot simplement referir-se a la Galia pero aixo pot ser una fecha impresisa ya que la inscripció era erigit en el alrededor del 18 aC a pesar de fer referencia a una fecha anterior.

ORIGINS

Nov 17, 1994

rchaeological and linguistic evidence from a period known as the Nordic Bronze Age indicates that a common material culture existed between the Germanic tribes that inherited the southern regions of Scandinavia, along with the Schleswig-Holstein area and the area of what is now Hamburg, Germany

CLASSIFICATION

Dec 12, 2004

By the 1st century CE, the writings of Pomponius Mela, Pliny the elder, and Tacitus indicate a division of Germanic-speaking peoples into large groupings who shared ancestry and culture. (This division has been appropriated in modern terminology about the divisions of Germanic languages.)