The Celts are a great warrior

Archaeological excavations today give the maina source of information about the life of the Celts, their culture, religion, crafts. Written data have been preserved by Greek and Roman authors, the works of early medieval chroniclers tell about ancient Celts, preserved own names, given toponyms, folklore.

The One People

The Celts are a representative of an ancient tribe,which lived in the first millennium BC in the vast territory of Western Europe. Celts are the descendants of a single prehistoric Indo-European people.

From this ancient race subsequently formedGermans, Slavs, Persians, Latins, extinct Goths, and also Indians. Then they had descendants, nations formed, for example, the Slavs divided into three groups: the Western - Czechs, Slovaks, Poles; eastern - Russian, Byelorussians, Ukrainians; southern - Bulgarians, Croats, Serbs, Macedonians. Celts are the ancestors of modern Scots, Irish, Bretons, Welsh.

The genetically united Indo-European people who livedfive thousand years ago in the territory of Russia (the modern Krasnodar Territory), by the beginning of the Bronze Age created not only a bronze weapon, but also invented a wheel and domesticated a horse. With new weapons, provisions on wagons, fast cavalry, they easily captured the new territories of Europe and Asia, thus becoming one of the most widespread groups of peoples on earth.

Language of the Celts

In Western Europe, a new communityIndo-Europeans - Celts with a center in the Alps. Therefore, the Celtic is the bearer of the Alpine language group. The most numerous of their people is called the Gauls. During the Roman conquests, their language was strongly influenced by Latin, which partly disappeared from everyday life. Later, the Celtic tribes living in the territory of modern France, were subjected to the invasion of the Germans from the north (the tribe of the Franks).

In Britain, due to the distance of the MistyAlbion, the Celts retained their culture and language from being enslaved by the Romans. The settlement by the Celts of the Misty Albion dates back to the beginning of the Iron Age (about 600 BC). The Celts are a member of a disparate group that did not realize themselves as a single nation.

Druids

Three thousand years ago a religious cult was bornDruids who possessed sacred inviolability. The appearance of a class of priests is associated with the need to manage Celtic society. The altar served as vertical stones. In the XIX century, scientists believed that Stonehenge was their sanctuary.

Mythology

Their rich cultural heritage was transferred fromby mouth for centuries, legends and traditions existed in several variants. Like most ancient peoples, the Celts were pagans and believed in the afterlife. During burial with the deceased, many items, such as plates, weapons, tools, ornaments, were left, carts with horses and carts were not excluded. The Celts were sure that everything that was needed in this world would be useful in the afterlife.

The main part of mythology was based on belief inthe relocation of souls, during battles this confidence helped the soldiers to be brave and selfless, lessened their fear of death. In the difficult life vicissitudes came to the aid of human sacrifice. Gods of the Celts: Taranis, Meadow, Ogmios, Teutat, Cernunn, Belenus, Jesus, Brigantia.

Military equipment

The Celts are an excellent warrior, living by robbery andraids, enmity with the Romans and kinsmen. The Celts lacked a single political center, that is, there were no kings, in each group only the leader of the clan had power. Information about the Celts, since they did not have their own written language, were first recorded by the Romans two thousand years ago, when they invaded the UK. The Celtic for the Romans is a backward barbarian who stands lower, lagging behind in science and crafts, who knows little and knows how, while they describe themselves as the enlightened people.

Perhaps, in the eyes of the Romans, the Celts had no idea of ​​military strategy, but their equipment and weapons were in no way inferior to the Roman, they were excellent gunsmiths.

At the battle of the Gaul with the Roman outsideit would be difficult for the observer to recognize who is who on the battlefield. The boys in the helmets of the Romans were not Romans - they were Gauls. The heads of the Romans were decorated with bronze hats with ponytails. Later, they copied from the Gauls a more practical design of helmets with shields on their cheeks.

The shields of the Celts were in human growth, anddecoration of them in the form of a convex figure of bronze served not only for beauty, but also for protection. The Romans and this find copied, as well as other types of weapons, assigning them Celtic names.

Celtic for the Roman was the creator of the newtechnological achievement - a war chariot. Maybe it's strange, but it caused surprise to the Romans. Some words are borrowed from the Celts, for example "league" (the word "horse"), turned into "cavalry" and "cavalier".

Ancient Celts three thousand years before the appearanceRome created several grandiose monuments: stone fortifications, massive tombs and the famous monument to the Ancient World of Stonehenge. We do not know how they erected all these structures, but even after five thousand years they still stand on the ground, hitting descendants with their might, and are proof of the culture of the ancient people.