THE CELTS - celtic and roman fortifications, vercingetorix, and battle of alesia

[almontage]

And to think we did all this before we invented potatoes!

[davethemouse1]

What what this taken from?

[exvoto100]

Très intéressante vidéo, merci..!!

[scarface18707]

The only peoples, in Spain, who are not MOSTLY Celtic are the Basques(Aquitanian) and Andalusians(Greek-Iberian mixed with some Berber)

[SaviorAgent]

Why do they make the Celts always more pimitiv as them were and the Romans more civilised than they were?

[OneMove33]

@SaviorAgent Its a load of bollocks the Roman Penis tribe were the most brutal...in fact states are founded on brutality and barbarism.

[MyUlster]

I am a Celtic, I am blood Uí Néill an we are still strong !  Long after Rome ! Ireland 4 EVER!

[nounever]

@canadianshit212 not r1b but similar I saw a man living in Holland I thought was Dutch or Italian saying he was a Riff Berber he was blond but swarthy if you understand what I mean? he also had grayish eyes and looked white.

[nounever]

@canadianshit212 hahahahahaahahahahhahaahhahahh­ahahahahahahaahhahahahaha what? are you serious the purest Celts are French Bretonians and the Welsh mixed with almost nobody. The Portuguese and Spanish are similar to the Etruscans and Berbers. Unless you are referring to Basques, Northern Castilians and Galicians but they do not represent Spaniards at large neither do the odd fair Portuguese with massive regional variations in percentage of as you say "Celtic" DNA.

[godzillaskywalker456]

The only reason the narrators try to make the celts look stupid and primitive is because scots have hated Brits for taking over their land. The celts preferred their simple ways over the backstabbing and imperial nature of the Romans.

[TinyArts]

Mmmm me love smash tiny little short celt man !! / with love from the viking north

[tomodude6542]

@TinyArts

the celts were actually often over 6 foot tall.. and didn't have girl's hair. :P haha.

with love from Celtic west (Wales).

[nounever]

@tomodude6542 yeah I just made a comment saying how the Welsh didn't really mix with anyone, the only purer Celts are French Bretonians, would you say Wales is Celtic still even South Wales.

[tomodude6542]

@nounever

well, some of us still have the obvious celtic attributes (fairly strong build, aggresive :L). but then again, thats true about most countries where celts are from right?

[celticbattleaxe]

Erin go bragh!!!!!!! LONG LIVE US CELTS!!!!!

[jaskamakkara]

Are'nt kngdoms the same as nations?

[ChrYou3]

Thank you for these important informations.

[greenmagoos]

red hair celtic caledonni ga(e)lilean passion of the 5,000 year old pontius pilate druids yew tree

watch?v=7tdrdBlZTws

[Bananastickers2]

child porn

[NerdyNerdMajor]

Also people complaining about Roman Women being property are just innacurate. I'm sure you know everything about celts from a few documentaries, but it seems you know very little about Roman Culture. Roman Women did own property, and could have their own income and possessions, also how did women come up in a video about the battle of Alesia?

[celticbattleaxe]

@NerdyNerdMajor That may be, as I have no doubt (coming from another history nut :)), but the Celts had allowed their women to fight alongside the men (related to the Amazons, I wonder). This terrified the Romans and stopped their pompous sexism, especially when Boudicca's revolt almost destroyed the Roman influence in Albion.

[NerdyNerdMajor]

Actually Roman Women could divorce without any reason simply because they wanted to. Roman. Greek, Persian, Phoenician, Libyan, Germanic, Spanish and every other type of ancient women looked after the old and the handicapped to, it is called running a household, which is not the same as modern housework.

[shorty962]

Are slavs decended of any celtic tribes?

[Illidanee]

@shorty962 no they are totally different people.

[Rico8458]

how about anglo saxons?

[ABOM420]

lmfao at you arguing over Romans and Celtics

this is 2010

weve all went from Ireland to Britian to America.

and from Italy to a dance around murdering a few 1000 sand niggers to America

now were both here

most like me are mixed (75% Irish 25% Italian)

so why cant we just be white males.

say were sorry.

and rule the world happily again

think about it

[samluke8121]

@ABOM420 So what if it is 2010? The history of the Celts and the rest of the Bronze age peoples is the creation of common human civilization.

[taitungknight]

5 Stars

-1 for not mentioning how Caesar won at Alesia not by attacking the massive fortifications, but by encircling them and building their own fortifications.

+1 for that fantastic part on stereotypes at the very end.

[bookkeeper57]

The Celts had a big, disorganized army.

[Breogan88]

How can you know it was disorganized? By the roman propaganda?

The same roman propaganda claimed that celts haven't no science knowledge at all but we know today that celtic calendar is much more advanced that the roman one...

[bookkeeper57]

The Celts in warfare were fearless: the Romans hated to meet them. They lacked the superior organization of the Roman military. When they took the field,

they brought camp retainers with them; an error that led to the defeat of Boadicea's army in Britain in 61AD. The Celts had a lunar calendar, and

skills in metalworking. The Romans never saw plaid until they met the Celts.

They had an oral tradition: they did not write things down in the same way as

Roman chroniclers did.

[bookkeeper57]

Roman image of Vercingetorix at 4:04. He came to Rome, and they recorded him. If Octavian ever succeeded in bringing Cleopatra to Rome, there was less speculation about her appearance.

The Romans were very good at documenting in writing and sculpture

every notable thing that came their way

in expanding their empire.

[paulwyrd]

He is magnificent looking chap.

[monkeyapplenerd]

Their are still Celtic peoples today Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Breton. How many Roman peoples are their? None they were wiped out by barbarians.

[mmadddog]

according to history full stop, fuck wit. caesar also slaughted 1,000,000 people throughout his war with these dogs

[mmadddog]

250,000 celts against 40,000 romans,hail caesar

[Green0S]

according to history written by Romans :)

[simbadsail]

After Alesia's defeat ,Caesar ordered that each Gaul prisoner was given slave to a roman legionary

[Tamaganos]

A salute to the Celts of the world from the Celtic land of Galiza!!!

[SuperClaire1981]

The Celtic women had more rights then Roman women. They good divorce if their husband was gay. Further more they look after the elderly and handicapt.

[paulwyrd]

Yes, shows how far superior they were to the Romans.

[bookkeeper57]

New to the Romans: women in battle, bearing arms. Or women who owned land in their own names, or who dispensed land to their retainers. In Rome, women did not own property:

they were property.

[GoldenAxeVox666]

@SuperClaire1981 A Celtic Utopian society!

Could also divorce if he beat her, was impotent, or if he couldn't bear her a son or daughter... and yes, they had a law to take care of all, the old, the sick, the poor, the handicapped, unlike Greco-Roman society where they could toss unwanted children off a cliff into the city rubbish pile...........

[Breogan88]

Long live Celtic nations. Enough Roman, British, Spanish and Portuguese imperialism.

[andy7666]

Silly bunny..

[paulwyrd]

And we now add American imperialism!

[ABOM420]

@paulwyrd lmfao yeah except you combine both and add imperialism.

and now we fucking rule

we combined both cultures adn what happend?

in 100 years we went from deleriving messages on horses.

to holding buisness meetings while on airplanes on the way to tokyo.

we are unstoppable

[samluke8121]

@Breogan88 WHAT! The British are Celtic! England and Wales was known as Brython.

[celticbattleaxe]

@samluke8121 Uh, not exactly. The name "Brython" and "Britannia" came from the Latin mispronunciation of "Pretani" or "Preteni", the name of the Celts of Albion as a whole. These names are probably genuinely Celtic. "Wales" came from the Saxon word "Walas", meaning "foreigners", or "strangers".

[ShikaStoner]

@Breogan88 Best comment ever.

[009jorge1]

@Breogan88 You realize in Galicia Spain is were the celts orginally came from to go to Ireland & Scottland right?

[Breogan88]

@009jorge1

Certainly! According to geneticists like Sykes, there was a massive migration from Nortwest of Ibéria into the british isles.

[GoldenAxeVox666]

@Breogan88 England still has its roots in Celtic Blood, its just been Romanized, then Anglo saxoned, then the change to Viking/Norman rule in 1066 till the modern day Englishman, but know this, all Modern day Celtic peoples, are married in blood with the Vikings as well, first through raids, then through integration , then through alliance of the Pictish,Gael, Scotti, Breton, and Viking alliance to fight off the invading Anglo-Saxons in the 9th century....Just before the Birth of Alba, Scotland

[nezahualcoyotl85]

the same thing happened to the aztects

[bebert3000]

vive vercingétorix!

[Probyzantinum]

Mais lui est mort de plus de 2000 annes :)

[phoenixking321]

vive CEASAR!

[gipcambero]

Merci !