Jayne's Learning Journal

Last post, I figured out where I was on the timeline. We were in the 2nd century b.c. when Pythaes sailed into the baltic sea and recorded finding a Germanic people as well as the Celts. This week we will move forward into the 1st centery b.c.. No Germanic written history from this period has survived so most of the history we have of them is from the eyes of those around them (i.e. the Celts and the Romans). A late 19th century imagination of the Cimbri and Teutoni on the march. According to Bayard Taylor's, A History of Germany, the Romans first heard the name "Germans" from Celtic Gauls; in whose language it meant "neighbors." Then in 113 or 112 b.c., still according to the Romans, a tremendous horde of strangers forced their way through the Tylorese Alps and invaded Roman territory.  They consisted of two great tribes, Cimbrians and Teutons, which were Celtic and Germanic. Demanding territory or at least the ability to pass through. T hey numbe...

To be completely honest with you world history confuses me and I have been slightly overwhelmed with doing this blog. I will try and power through it. Last week I got some pretty interesting feedback on my post that I'm grateful for. I will share a couple of their ideas before going into a new post. One response I got was referring to Indo-Aryan migration theory and here's a wiki link that was shared with me . It speaks of migrations happening between 1000 and 2000 BCE. Another was a suggestion that the migration " had something to do with the 12 tribes of Israel  being banished away." These comments really helped me to pinpoint the area of the timeline I'm referring to. Which is good because I had no idea what part of the timeline I was referring to. The first link is referring to the time period taking place during the second millennium BCE. and the second comment was referring to something that is believed to have taken place around the 7th...