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The Celts were a group of peoples that occupied lands stretching from the
British Isles to Gallatia. The Celts had many dealings with other
cultures that bordered the lands occupied by these peoples, and even
though there is no written record of the Celts stemming from their own
documents, we can piece together a fair picture of them from
archeological evidence as well as historical accounts from other
cultures.
The first historical recorded encounter of a |
people displaying the
cultural traits associated with the Celts comes from northern Italy
around 400 BC, when a previously unkown group of barbarians came down
from the Alps and displaced the Etruscans from the fertile Po valley, a
displacment that helped to push the Etruscans from history's limelight.
The next encounter with the Celts came with the still young Roman
Empire, directly to the south of the Po. The Romans in fact had sent
three envoys to the beseiged Etruscans to study this new force. We know
from Livy's The Early History of Rome that this first encounter with
Rome was quite civilized: |
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