Celtic History - Introduction

Celtic art first began from Celtic people who started to develop about 4000 years ago in northern Europe and where unified by the common language and culture. The Celts did not have one leader but the largest tribe lead the rest. The Celts developed culturally as they expended and learnt from other tribes, also the Celts conquered many lands one of the first  victories for them was against the Carthaginians. The Celts had an alliance with the Greeks which they somewhat balanced each other out and in their second conquest defeated the Illyrians, Alexander the great helped Macedonia by beating there enemy which where the Illyrians. The Celts also defeated the Romans at the hand of the Celtic military commander   Brennus, by 300 BC the Celts where concentrated in the British Isles and Gaul. The Celts used two currencies which where photo money and of course gold. The Celts had a very interesting culture filled with druids, bards and priests in which the druids where the leaders of the Celtic society which were known to have some kind of power. The bards where known as travelling musicians but did not write their own songs instead Fili who where known as Celtic writers wrote the bards for them. The priests who copied the bible made beautiful Celtic borders using Celtic knots and mazes. At about that time Rome was attempting to gain new territory to help pay of Rome's deficit, Julius Caesar raged war with the Celts,  because of this the Celtic culture was restricted to the British Isles and the north of France, Rome was gradually taking the Celts territory. When Caesar defeated the Celts largest tribe the war came to an end and the Celts where restricted to Ireland and Scotland as Rome expanded. 

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