Introduce Celtic

The Celts are the oldest indigenous inhabitants of Western Europe.

During the Roman Empire, they, together with the Germans and Slavs, were called the three major barbarian tribes in Europe by the Romans. They are also one of the representative ethnic groups of Europeans today. Distributed in Western Europe, today's Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish people in England and Brittany people in France all belong to the Celts, represented by the Irish, Scots and Welsh people.

The Celts lived together in large families or tribes. In order to expand the tribe, they would continue to expand their territory. Usually a Celtic noble knight or chief symbolically rules the entire tribe, and there is a privileged class that accounts for one-third of the population. The entire Celtic society was built on complex kinship relationships and obligations. The aristocratic class must increase their wealth and prestige by contributing to agriculture, trade, and victory in war. They then used this to increase their wealth and prestige. To form or invest a sum of wealth into the family or tribe to which you belong.

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National history:

The Seine River in eastern France, the upper reaches of the Loire River, the Rhine River in southwestern Germany, and the upper reaches of the Danube River are Celtic The birthplace of man. They first appeared in these areas around the beginning of the tenth century BC. In the following centuries, the Celts spread and migrated to surrounding areas as armed tribal alliances and carried out military immigration.

From the 5th century BC, they began to penetrate and expand throughout Europe. Beginning around 500 BC, the Celts invaded and occupied the British Isles from mainland Europe. Some Celts settled in today's Ireland and Scotland, and the rest occupied the south and east of today's England. Some Celts crossed the Rhine into northeastern France and settled in the area north of the Seine and west and south of the Ardennes.

After 500 BC, France has become the main area where the Celts lived. The ancient Romans collectively called the Celts who lived in today's France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, southern Germany and northern Italy the Gauls, and called the area where the Gauls lived Gaul, covering an area of ??about 600,000 square kilometers. . After that, they were once widely distributed on the European continent and successively conquered today's France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and other regions.

The ancient Celts did not have a capital. They existed in the form of tribes for a long time. Their expansion in Europe can be understood as "migration of the whole family." After entering the Middle Ages, some Celtic tribes gradually merged together to form a country in the modern sense.

In the early Middle Ages, the Celts on the island of Ireland still maintained the custom of living in small groups. Until around 800 AD, Leinster, Munster, Connaught and Ulster on the island These four provinces were united. ?

Around 1000 AD, Brian Boro became the first king of all Irish people and led the Irish army to defeat the Danes in Dublin in Clontarf in 1014 AD.

In 1296 AD, King Edward I of England (also known as "Long Legs" and "Scots Hammer") annexed Scotland. William Wallace (please refer to "Brave Heart") led the Scots to rise up in resistance and almost won independence for Scotland after winning the Battle of Stirling in 1297 AD. Robert the Bruce then proclaimed himself King of Scotland after assassinating his main rival. He won a great victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 AD and drove all the English troops from Scotland.

In 1328 AD, King Edward III of England was forced to recognize Scotland's independent status.

The Welsh should also be regarded as descendants of the ancient Celts. However, the Welsh region at that time had always been in a state of division among the princes, and no prince had ever had enough strength to unify the region.

In the 13th century AD, the king of England even adopted the method of forming an alliance with many second-rate princely states in Wales to prevent the region from becoming a powerful unity. Wales, although often within the sphere of English influence, had always been a Celtic stronghold. However, after the death of Prince Llewellyn in 1282, Edward I launched a campaign and won a victory, placing Wales under English rule.

The Acts of Union of 1536 and 1542 unified England and Wales administratively, politically, and legally (the reason why the British crown prince is called the "Prince of Wales").

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