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The ancestors of the Germanic peoples, a diverse mixture of tribes, were probably Indo-Europeans.
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They lived a long time in Eurasia.
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When they expanded in all directions, some of them reached the settlement area between the Baltic Sea and the Alps around 1000 BC.
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There, they mixed with the indigenous people.
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The so-called Jastorf culture emerged, named after an urn cemetery near Jastorf in Lower Saxony.
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Throughout centuries, the proto-Germanic people even reached the Danube, the Vistula and Scandinavia.
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They built small villages, founded their own clans and tribes.