Martin J. Dougherty states in the Celts: The History and Legacy of one of the oldest cultures in Europe that the Celts “…were far more complex than at first it might appear” (13). The birth place of Celts came from Keltoi which has been created from the Greeks, except another term they are called as is barbarians, by none other than the Romans (19). These Keltoi’s, barbarians, Celts, or however you decide to call them, are being hired by the Greeks for their mercenary skills to help the Greeks win their wars. But sometimes the Celts would end up going against the Greeks for their own profit. These events have been put into contact between the early and end of the Greek Dark Age. Afterwards, some Celts left their society to create their own
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These cultures consist of the Bronze Age Culture: Urnfield Culture, Iron Age Culture, and Hallstatt Culture, also last but not least, the La Tène Culture (20-26).
The Bronze Age Culture came into the picture around 1300 BCE (20-23). After this culture came to be, but then came the Bronze Age Collapse which occurred a couple hundred years after by a group known as the “sea people”(19) which whom had supposedly caused this destruction and there might have been another group that assisted the sea people with their plans. There was an event where the Greek legends discuss about the Dorian Invasion and whether or not the ancestors of the Celts were involved (20). The trouble of this period brought about the destruction of three societies which had outcomes through the world that might be the cause of raising the Celtic Culture. Whether the Celts were directly or indirectly involved would not matter since everything would still continue on within the planet. Now, within this Bronze Age Culture, we have smaller civilizations being born. For instance, the Urnfield Culture is a village who are the creators of the burial act known cremation, as well as the putting the ashes into urns …show more content…
This society was built around a hierarchy which provided strength some of the time (43). This society was more like a giant family with some extended family in the making and just like families roles: grandparents, parents, and children the society is set up just like this too. The grandparents (higher-ups) are the tribes. There was NO incest within this society so they all aren’t related by blood. The tribal leaders had power over tribal members that are more domestic than from legal authority of today’s government officials or the divinely motivated kings of those ages (48). Within these tribes there were sections called Septs, who were more or less independent of themselves. Septs of their tribes were bound by kinship and loyalty to the tribe that they are a part of. Individual Septs had more interactions with and closer, personal loyalty to their sept than their tribe. Many Celts lived in small extended-family groups, either while working on the farm or instead as a social and economic unit. Different communities had social hierarchies that repeated itself in populated places. The king of their tribe was more higher-up than the head of the family, same position as the father of a family just a tiny bit more power. There was no such thing as a rightful heir when it came to being king, it was more of a voting type of position like when a president gets voted within the diplomatic system.
These cultures consist of the Bronze Age Culture: Urnfield Culture, Iron Age Culture, and Hallstatt Culture, also last but not least, the La Tène Culture (20-26).
The Bronze Age Culture came into the picture around 1300 BCE (20-23). After this culture came to be, but then came the Bronze Age Collapse which occurred a couple hundred years after by a group known as the “sea people”(19) which whom had supposedly caused this destruction and there might have been another group that assisted the sea people with their plans. There was an event where the Greek legends discuss about the Dorian Invasion and whether or not the ancestors of the Celts were involved (20). The trouble of this period brought about the destruction of three societies which had outcomes through the world that might be the cause of raising the Celtic Culture. Whether the Celts were directly or indirectly involved would not matter since everything would still continue on within the planet. Now, within this Bronze Age Culture, we have smaller civilizations being born. For instance, the Urnfield Culture is a village who are the creators of the burial act known cremation, as well as the putting the ashes into urns …show more content…
This society was built around a hierarchy which provided strength some of the time (43). This society was more like a giant family with some extended family in the making and just like families roles: grandparents, parents, and children the society is set up just like this too. The grandparents (higher-ups) are the tribes. There was NO incest within this society so they all aren’t related by blood. The tribal leaders had power over tribal members that are more domestic than from legal authority of today’s government officials or the divinely motivated kings of those ages (48). Within these tribes there were sections called Septs, who were more or less independent of themselves. Septs of their tribes were bound by kinship and loyalty to the tribe that they are a part of. Individual Septs had more interactions with and closer, personal loyalty to their sept than their tribe. Many Celts lived in small extended-family groups, either while working on the farm or instead as a social and economic unit. Different communities had social hierarchies that repeated itself in populated places. The king of their tribe was more higher-up than the head of the family, same position as the father of a family just a tiny bit more power. There was no such thing as a rightful heir when it came to being king, it was more of a voting type of position like when a president gets voted within the diplomatic system.