Why did the Celts dominate Europe?

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[micahistory]

it's interesting how they went from dominating the continent to being relegated on the edge of islands on the edge of the continent

[txibiam]

Good video, although I would like to add that I would not consider the Iberians as an "underdeveloped civilization that had to copy the Celts". The celts indeed introduced the ironworking, which of course is very important, but the Iberians had, for example, better agriculture, housing, they used coins in their trade, and they had their own writing system. One of the reasons we have more information about the ancient Celts is because some Celtic tribes in central Iberia (the Celtiberians) added the writing system of the Iberians, using their own Celtic language.

[DiamondTurtleGamer]

loved the video, amazing quality. but if I were to suggest anything, it's the mic quality holding you back. everything else, great

[noahtylerpritchett]

I video on the Celticization of Britain is brilliant idea.
It was Bronze Age Gaelicized, iron age Brythonicized, and classical period Belgaeized. The subject is fascinating.
We didn't even know of a Celtic genetic Bronze Age migration until a study back in 2021 from Northern Gaul.
It doesn't mean these Celts were pure Celt, they could be Celticized northern Europeans migrating into Britain, or most likely mix descendants of northern Gauls who adopted Alpine Celtic culture and descendants genetically from the Celts from the Hallstatt genetic Alps ancestry.

[qboxer]

I would be interested to see if modern archaeo-genetics backs up area of the Celtic origin, and also if it can demonstrate rough proportions of Celts who invaded into Iberia. We know from these studies that the Indo-Europeans conquered Early European Farmers in the Early Bronze Age, bringing to an end Neolithic Europe, the Europe of the megaliths, but I wonder if Celt was more of a culture or if it was a formed people, and if they took over non-Indo Europeans (like Basques) in Iberia, or instead simply conquered other, unknown Indo-European groups that had settled there before.

[KensaiProductions]

I think people are going to people, when they come across a better way of doing things they will adopt it wholesale or adapt it to their own culture.

[vinodpaul]

Not that I'm complaining, but why the increased output? Have you become full time and given up your day job?

[marthvader]

Video about how the Celts vanished almost completely from Europe would be interesting

[nelsonlopes]

at this period the Hiberian peninsule was just Hispania/Spain? No Lusitania/Portugal?

[CZiNTrPT]

Maybe because everyone else didn't have any arms

[CZiNTrPT]

Have you read dawn of everything? I think you might it find quite interesting reading it while keeping the ideas of this video in mind

[noahtylerpritchett]

I doubt it's super peaceful.
Arab culture spread by warlike assimilation
Turkic culture similarly.
So why is Celtic spread just some sort of cultural trade spread instead of damn swords into guts? I don't deny trade.
But how does trade exclude the culture spread by war?

[FaithfulOfBrigantia]

The Celts did not originate in the Hallstatt culture. They originated much earlier than that, and were already present all over Western Europe, from Iberia to Ireland well before the Hallstatt culture was a thing.

The Hallstatt theory was invented in the 19th century based on a a selective shaky intrepretation of some ancient texts while ignoring others.

All linguistic, archeological and genetic data thoroughly disproves an Alpine origin.

[johnkeck]

Interesting point, but the long explanation about how a more advanced people becomes a role model was completely unnecessary. Ever notice how everyone tends to look up to the rich kids? It's pretty much just a given of human life.

[wankawanka]

You should cover the sicilian wars between Carthage and Syracuse

[DimitrisDim-np]

I do not think that the celts dominated Europe.They basically invented nothing, they were probably different tribes which spoked different languages, and in some point of the history went extinct.As such there is absolutely no evidence that the "celts" migrated in Britain, that theory was promoted in the 17th to 18th centuries.In the balkans alone, the so called celts were totally defeated by the far more technologically advanced and powerful Illyrian and Dacian Kingdoms.The celts there, were seen as low technology people that were fighting nude and rarely bathed.I don't know how exactly they dominated Europe, when they never even formed a single Kingdom.

[samwill]

Dominate? They haven't had a good season in like a decade and their european exhibition games are an embarrassment-
Oh you mean the PEOPLE group.