In my opinion the Celts figured that one out before the Etruscans. I say so simply because the Romans called mail, "Gallica".

The thing is about the Celts is they did not have at that time a recorded literature or records. This in no way signifies that they were not as if not more technologically advanced than the Romans. The Romans were good at assimilating and adapting the best of other cultures, Celtic armour, swords and chariots for instance.

The Romans were very familiar with the Etruscans. They would have said chainmail came from them but they said the Celts invented it. The Celts also made advances in iron helmet technology. It's one of those ironies that the soldiers Caesar used to conquer Gaul were equipped largely with technology that came from the Celts. The curve in the shield being a likely exception.

​​@@damionkeeling3103Romaniz-ing Celts conquered other Celts. That was the Gallic campaign by Caesar. A great number of his legionaries WERE Celtic speakers, Cisalpine Gauls quite unsympathetic to the plight of the Transalpine tribes.

@@metatronyt definitely more videos on this topic!

Yeah trying to whitewash white history is sad. Imagine the cognitive dissonance of your ilk: fact is you were naked barbarians and yet you believe yourself to be the superior race.

Se siente super bien

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I can't say I've come across any genuine historical channels on youtube which contain presentism or virtue signalling?

@@jayplay8140 That's almost tautological. A _genuine_ historical channel wouldn't contain presentism or virtue signalling by definition. However there are plenty of non-genuine history channels, and most especially non-history channels that are either presentist or virtue signaling. And nevermind the comments! I see so many of those they make me physically cringe. Edit: I've just read a comment about someone claiming the world didn't know that Earth was round until the 1500s. _barf_

You mean a return to professional normalcy, standards, and the methodical pursuit of factual accuracy and objectivity? For a minute there, I thought I was back in--- 😉 😅

Idk if this really counts as a strawman 🤔 but I see what you’re saying. It’s like when we see every “enemy” in the Middle East as terrorists, while literally most of them have legit political and social claims we are purposefully ignoring to make it look like we are the good guys. But even the Romans I don’t think were this harsh. It’s just a better story to tell if they were all naked instead of some of them sometimes, for example. Even doing it a little bit is still “a lot”. It hits different when you’re fighting hand to hand and the naked guy is literally all over you 😂

Its just a couple of Roman Walter Mitty stories that got out of hand

It does not help if you tell your soldiers you’re going to fight highly cultured civilisation who maybe better or more advanced and perhaps higher morality than you. It feels better when being told you are fighting evil barbaric naked terrorists.

​@yoey yoey Correction the Romans were also that harsh towards their enemies be they political, economical, ideological or militarily just as people are today. Humanity at its core has not really changed.

Aside from their own myths of being wolf children/Trojans/descendants of Venus, the Romans were arguably a half-Etruscan Celtic border tribe themselves?

Yeah same

From what tribe do you trace yourself to.?

Why nobody hot on the checkerboard pants?

Who looks down on them? Usually we are upset by the way they were unjustly treated leading up to their demise. They were too powerful for their own good. If they had an inkling of what the Romans had in store for them, they might have conducted themselves differently

UM NOBLES YES, BUT THE AVERAGE MAN WEAPONS AND SHIELD

​@@yoeyyoey8937 yes indeed. Whatever I've learned about Celts resulted from learning about Boudicca's story, always felt like rooting for them. (Sorry Rome lol)

Crazy enough, they even invaded Greece and became a major power in anatolia. ANATOLIA!

It also puts into much better perspective what the Romans actually overcame in their conquests - because fighting hordes of mindless screaming naked warriors is not remotely impressive, but fighting the very culture that actually gave Roman legions their fighting style - much more impressive.

I was looking at my copy of J.Warrys book as I was looking at the comments and seen your post. Its a great book. One of the best books I have.

Romans were Anatolians, and Rome was the name of Anatolia.

@@alphabetpeople2902 And I'm Jesus of Nazaret, come to deliver this world from sin.

@@seawolf9616 And Jesus was a pedophile as per Mark 14:51-52

On the bright side, you can reasonably assume a number of relations between all the groups. Celt was a broad term for a reason. Germanic is a broad term for a reason. And most of them had the same common ancestors

Imagine all the bagpipe music we could have had if the Celts were still around today. We really missd out.

​@@captainnyet9855Uhhhh, there are Celts still around today... there are 5 Celtic nations in fact.

didn't the celtric disliked written language?

​@@laughingvampire7555 they limited it for religious reasons, atleast that's what I heard

Also a video about the diplomatic relationships between the Romans and the different celtic tribes in different periods would be really awesome.

Irish are less "celtic" or "gallic" genetically than french

@@SonsOfMars-Game If the Irish aren't Celtic then what are they Chinese? The French are a mix of Celts and Germanic tribes. The Franks were Germanic.

​@@edstar83are Franks were pure germanic?

​@Piotr Bogucki yes, the name "France" just means "Franks", a tribe of germans. Modern Germany is actually just the eastern part of what used to be Francia.

The later la tene culture would have reached Denmark if only through trade links and diplomacy, after all the Cimbri who scared the crap out of Rome with a sudden southward migration came from somewhere around the base of the Jutland peninsula.

There's still a lot of Norse in the Celtic lands. My husband is one of those being a descendant of old Sigurd the Stout! So we are told.

what's funny is I think the celts thought of the germans in the same way that the romans viewed the celts, as completely unsophisticated barbarians

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245, I wish we had more or even any records regarding what was happening to the Celts from the east or northeast. But even during Ceaser's time, he initially started his conquest by preventing a Germanic tribe from attacking the Celts.

Agreed. Especially because a lot of those ancient Scandinavian armor designs are pretty cool and fairly imposing. And the fact is the only warriors that did this were wolf and bear cult guys. The berserkers

That would take a lot of hands…

Lies all lies, this channel. At school we had the Holy Books of Asterix *in Latin*. Proof positive of Historical Truth.

@@user-bf3pc2qd9s The Potion is real.

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Is this for real? What are the books called?

@ Ferrule Bezel América??????? ........ Norte.....????? Celtas? ????? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 FAKE NEWS 😂😂😂😂 SEM VERGONHA 😂😂😂😂

These primitive amphetamines have also the peculiarity that if an infant falls into the cauldron where they're being brewed, the kiddos will gain extra strength and endurance for life.

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Respect to you Italian brother from a Romanian. Are you going to do a video about our ancestors beliefs about if men and men love was okey like you did about Ancient Greeks?

One question! Are you Italian or Greek ? 🤔

Next do a video on the Roman Emperor Hadrian and Antinous. Talk about those two would be a interesting video

​@@Omar9-12-18 he's Italian (Metatron)

@@Omar9-12-18 Italian

I think they would have used whatever they could. I understand that swords, short or long were prized and expensive possesions, hence most probably would have used spears i would guess.

Fr? Who hired them?

​@@yoeyyoey8937 Hannibal

@@yoeyyoey8937 10,000 Gallic mercenaries were employed by the Ptolemies and had their own major camp/settlement in Lower Egypt, for one, and the other Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Diadochi for the others.

​@@yoeyyoey8937even the Romans were fond of hiring Gallic mercenaries, especially cavalry

Imagine the cognitive dissonance of fascists: fact is that white people used to be naked barbarians before liberalism made humans outta you, but they make themselves believe that they are the master race. hahahaha

For starters, he claims they were Spanish which didn't even exist back then, ignoring the other Countries in the peninsula where there were also pre-roman indigenous peoples, so you do you.

​@@lordcommandernox9197Spanish as in from Spain guess you didn't understand but you do you do.

​@@lordcommandernox9197 The term Spanish is loosely interchangeable with the term Iberian.

@@Liberates The people you refer to as Celtiberian also lived in Spain true, but because Spain is not the whole of Iberia the term you're looking for is _Hispania,_ you know, the Roman word for the peninsula? It's also true the Castillian monarchs later coopted that name so they would sound more legitimate. haha haha, interchangeable my ass, what are you? American?

@@Liberates Are they called CeltiSpanish? No, because the Spanish never conquered Portugal so you have to call them Celtiberian instead as they spanned both countries. Guess you have a poor grasp of grammar besides geography.

I'm really happy to read that you enjoyed the book :-)

@@EvropantiqvaAnd I am happy you wrote it. Sincerely, it was a wonderfull read and it did a great job illustrating the celtic way of warfare (as well its place in the overal celtic culture) and shed some light on aspects I was not familiar with. If I might ask, any chance "A Roma da Cartagine" will be translated in English as well?

@@FirstoftheAbyss92 frankly I don't know. It depends if Pen&Sword will buy the publication rights from LEG (my Italian publisher).

@@Evropantiqva A shame, I would love adding a good book about the Punic Wars to my library. If they do, you can be confident about the identity of at least buyer though. Good luck with the rest of your endeavors.

Yeah they made some amazing art in their day

Thank you for your kind words

It was in horrible histories

You're claiming they NEVER did? Cause sources say yes.

Because it's awesome

Because naked strong men is awesome

Because they whooped ass while doing so😂😂😂 they Gave the Romans more problems than anywhere else

Interesting 🤔

Thank you for your kind words

This sad excuse of a human, is desperately trying to whitewash white history. Imagine the cognitive dissonance of you fascists: fact is white people were naked barbarians before liberalism made humans outta you, and yet you believe yourself to be the superior Aryan race which refers to Iran, not white people.

He already has many of them (:

Celts were not your average barbarian, with access to 100% perfect active camouflage like that!

Honorable mention to the Welsh.

Yes the term of celtic origin transmited as Walhaz, vlach,wallach and other variants has celtic origin but the non romanized germanic tribes in confusion were calling all the romanic and romanized people as walhaz and the slavs took the term from germanics in vlah and other forms during centuries .the germanics at fiirst in confusion believed that all the romance speakers are romanized celts ,the term became a generic exonym during medieval , medieval romanians were not calling each other as vlachs but romans.ruman and other varians during centuries meaning roman and their origin is thraco-roman /romanized thracian tribes mixed with romans and also minorities of illyrians celts and later germanics were assimilated by the thracians as other minorities from thracian kingdoms as Dacia and Odryssian then the people of thracian kingdoms got romanized and the stuff before the 7 th century and after some of the slavs got assimilated in romanian medieval states ,mini states and principalities while medieval romanians got asimilated by others in other parts of east south europe etc . For example ,the bizantine princess Anna Komnene tells about that the so called vlachs/latin /romance speakers of medieval balkans were called thraco dacians and bessians and other names before becoming romans ,bessians also were a thraco dacian tribe that got romanized ,other medieval byzantine medieval sources tell that the so called vlachs were also called as mysi/moesians before beiing called vlachs ,the mysi or moesians were also a thraco dacian tribe that got romanized and Moesia region became Roman province ,,as well other byzantine and other european historians were calliing the medieval romanian/vlachs as getae and dacians including the romanian origin rulers and romanian populations living in the neighboring principates and kingdoms were still called in medieval documents as getae and dacians and at the same time as romans and vlachs ,in the papal documents including letters they are called romans and Wallaci/vlachs and variants at the same time in documents from different medieval periods . The vlach exonym was used also for medieval italic romance speakers,the situation of italic peninsula was also very complex with germanic and other non native groups while not all the groups in italic peninsula spoke romance/latin on the way to moden united Italian state with romance/latin as main language and lots of dialects of the italian language in the peninsula ,the medieval polish slavs were calling the italians as wlocky or something similar to vlachs and hungarians today are still calling the italians as olahsz the same as they are calling the romanians,the term vlach apears in many variants in different medieval languages and medieval latin versions as Wallaci,Vlaci,Blaci,Voloci ,Vlasi etc

Thanks!

The whole Celt denialist thing is based on absurdly reductionist and arbitrary definitions of 'Celtic' to ensure some group or other is excluded from the definition of 'Celt'. If the definition of Celt belongs to anyone, than it belongs to the remaining ethic groups who identify a Celtic.

Me too 👍🏻🌹🍀

Ethnicity is fascist delusion. And calling ancient Celts anything but naked barbarians is also a fascist delusion. Get psychiatric help, ASAP.

Seann Roinn Eòrpa Cheilteach gu bràth!

The “Celtic diaspora” or “Proto-indo European diaspora” is now apart of my vocabulary- thank you kindly!!!

“Germania”

"Relatively successful" *had their lands devastated and their people almost genocided.

@@Harib_Al-Saq yes but inflicted heavy casualties on Roman forces by all accounts.

@@JJaguar333 The casualties they inflicted caused Severus to issue his near genocidal edict to lay waste to Caledonia. An act that can still be seen in the archaeological record today.

@@Harib_Al-Saq from my understanding he issued an order to lay waste to Caledonia but died in York before it could be carried out., and his sons Carcalla and Geta didn’t wish to continue but rather return to Rome.

Thanks 🙏

As a guy who enjoys writing and drawing about ancient history, I wish you success with your story.

The Iliad. Caesar's description of warfare in Britain is eerily similar to the warfare described in Homer's Iliad. Battle Taxis carrying high status warriors to and from combat. It's flowery and poetic as well as exceedingly violent and gory, best of all you could download it as a pdf for free.

You'd be better off reading the Ulster Cycle and Fenian Cycle for ideas.

There's actually about 6 standing stones in Ireland that have Latin text with Roman names on them rather than Gaelic ones. Theres one in Carlow which is written by a Roman immigrant who mentions his name and his sons name. Could be worth looking into.

@@eoin3591 link?

The turth is Barbarian more means people not under our political control than anything else. The Gaul were very mechanically inclined having devices to help plant and harvest that were cutting edge for their time. Also horse shoes and the four horned saddle that the romans would adopt were Celtic too. Really no culture is primitive all cultures developed to the level they needed to survive so in that way the more simple can be seen in a way as successful. For example the average native American lived longer than the average Roman.

Often, one finds that the stereotypes were true... for the small one from las vegas, so to speak (a small, not very important sub-set of their culture; along the lines of 'yeah, it happened, but no one even at the time really cared much about it). The alternative is 'yes, it's true, but there's nuance to it'.

Is he an idiot or are you an idiot for not being able to explain why it’s pronounced that way?

Unless he is talking about the basketball team.

​@@als3022 Basketball is so boring. I would watch it though if a bunch of angry Italians butchered the Celtics mid game.

@@als3022 No but he replied mentioning the scottish football team.

Lol. I've had a few arguments myself. Surely the Celtic football team (pronounced 'Seltic') confused everyone. It confused me when i was a kid.

Err, like Uderzo and Goscinny ???

Are you winding me up or is it a real question x) ? Anyway, Asterix is riddled with historical jokes, including in Latin ^^

@@letsbefranks2062 Au calme ! C'était une blague.

@@martinwallace5734 lol je te crois volontiers vieux - après t'inquiète, c'était dit sans animosité. ^^

@@letsbefranks2062 En tout cas, quant à Asterix, je suis fan depuis des lustres.

I'm not entirely sure about that.

They had no history until they crawled out of their swamps and stole Roman lands. The End.

@@Harib_Al-Saq You can say the same for the Arabs

​@@Harib_Al-Saqbro I said their history AFTER they made their first contact with the byzantines/germanic kingdoms

The "Byzantine" empire is called the Roman Empire, Rome being Anatolia.

@@road-eo6911 My guy is forgetting about the Nabataeans and the Sabaeans.

Imagine the cognitive dissonance of fascists: fact is that white people used to be naked barbarians, but they make themselves believe that they are the master race. hahahaha

I require source for this.

​@@altechelghanforever9906 i think its about the noric steel wich was very appreciated by Romans Noric steel came from Noricum wich was a celtic kingdom

Those were lusitanians not celts. Whilst there is a lot of confusion on the matter, lusitanians were not celts, but rather a pre-celtic indoeuropean group that adopted celtic practices. But Lusitanians were their own unique thing.

​@@RoderickVI in fact, there were celts in Portugal. The celtiberians were a mix between celts and the native iberians.

​@@RoderickVI I was under the impression that the Lusitani were either celticized Iberians or ibericized Celts.

​@@RoderickVI The Lusitani only inhabited a small part of what is nowadays Portugal, corresponding to more or less the modern Beira Interior province. The rest of the territory of what is today Portugal was inhabited by other tribal confederations, such as the Callaeci and Celtici (I think the name is pretty clear), two branches of the Turduli (Veteres and Oppidani) as well as the Conii.

@@RoderickVI The Lusitanians were Celtic

The Belgians weren't exactly Gallic though. They were a mixed German and Celtic tradition that had spread into northern Gaul. They didn't fight like the Gauls and it caught him off guard. Same happened again when he encountered the Britons. And against both he nearly was defeated, saved only by treachery from within their ranks.

You belgians have more blacks and arabs in your country than actual belgians, lol

@@alexduffy7925 not really. Just regional and most of them are allright. Just a few folks causing all trouble, as usual

@@TheLastKentuckyIrregular9524 Belgica was devide and rule. The Northern part where I live, Flanders, is Germanic with Dutch as langauage. The South, Wallony, is Gaulic and speaks French. But my ancestors are Breton. Actually Breton or Brezhoneg sounds a lot like Latin. There is a theory that due to Latin and Gaulic being both Italo-Celtic languages the Gauls understood the Romans better than the Germanic people.

@@MGCrow-jc6ps The problem with attributing a single origin to the Gauls is that they favored trade and thus had a tendency to adopt language and cultural practices of those they traded with. No one tribe was wholy like another.