1000 BC - 862 AD
Tribes
- Cimmerians - Week 1
- from 1000-700 BC. LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Scythians - Week 1
- to 3rd century BC. LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Sarmatians - Week 1
- to 3rd century AD. LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Greeks - Week 1
- 3rd BC to 17th century AD. LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Goths - Week 1
- split into Ostrogoths (Black Sea to Baltic) and Visigoths (sacked Rome; went on to live in Spain). LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Huns - Week 1
- came in 370 AD; Attila respected Pope Leo so did not attack Rome; at death in 453, tribe disintegrated. LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Avars - Week 1
- came in 558, and ruled for 250 years (until 808?); went to Dagestan Republic; Muslim. LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Khazars - Week 1
- Turkic tribe; upper class was Jewish. LectureNotes #1b:2.
- Bulgars - Week 1
- Byzantines - Week 1
- Polovtsy - Week 1
- Magyars - Week 1
- Pechenegs - Week 1