They started spreading across rapidly and by the end of the 1st millennium B.C. their cultural group had already spread up and down the Danube and Rhine, also covering Gaul, Ireland and Britain, across central Europe into northern Italy and northern Spain. Since most of the Celtic tribes used to do their journey’s across Europe, which …show more content…
the Greek sanctuary at Delphi was sacked by another Celtic tribe which later on got in to the Celtic kingdom in Asia minor, Galatia. The Celtic people were apparently fierce warriors.
The archeologists have defined the type of Celts according to the sites i.e. Hallstat (Austria) and La Tene (Switzerland), in which the former is taken to study their earlier phase of cultural development. The excavation of Hallstat had started from 1876 onwards by the viennese academy of sciences and it was then that they came up with the first classification to be provided for the pre-historic Celts.
In 1958, when the water level of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland sunk to a low level, it revealed a large pre-historic settlement with a huge number of artifacts which survived throughout a long period of time. The second phase of Celtic cultural development was found in the nearby town of La Tene. All of these phases are according to their geographical area and they overlap through time.
According to the linguistic scholars the Celtic people are divided into the Goidelic and Brythonic branches, where the heard c – sound of the Goidels (e.g. the Irish or Scottish “cenn”, head) becomes a softer p – sound in the Brythonic (Welsh or Cornish “Penn”, …show more content…
These capitals were reconstructed in the Roman fashion, very often at the expense of the Roman treasury, with a network of customarily laid out streets and public buildings replicated from those of the capital, all allowances being made. Where the economic circumstances were auspicious, these capitals progressively took on the character of true cities in the modern sense of the word, but where this stimulus was destitute of they remained simple villages, pristinely administrative centers without the slightest economic paramount.
Alongside of these cities which the Romans built from scratch to satiate their administrative needs, other cities sprang up and developed spontaneously. Their magnification was a direct consequence of the economic vigor which visited Northern