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Who are the Celts?
Title: Who are the Celts?
Category: History / European History
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Who are the Celts?
Celts is the name given to a culture rather than a race. Celts varied from curly hair brown hair through red hair. They occupied central and Northern Europe including the British Isles in the Pre-roman period, gradually being pushed further north and westwards by the Roman peoples and the Nordic and Saxon peoples. They were a non-urban people. They lived on small holdings, and kept animals, grew crops and hunted. A typical Celtic house probably …showed first 75 words of 5101 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 5101 total…still spoken until 400 BC.7 These were eventually assimilated into Turkey. Others enlisted as mercenaries with Carthage. Wars between Celts and Germans or Celts who had settled earlier were fought all over Mid-Europe, Gaul and Britain. By the end of this the only Celtic strongholds were Britain and Gaul.
Modern Celts
Most people of European descent today can count on some Celtic ancestry. A typical impression of a Celt today is the short, dark haired Iris
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