Why did the Celts Collapse?

Why did the Celts Collapse?

The Celts were a people of mysticism, tenacity, and rich culture. Though they lacked a written language for some time, making it hard to document their lives and civilizations for future generations, we have managed to learn a fair amount about these fascinating people. How they rose to power, how they existed, and even, where they are now…

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[TheAtlasReview]

"Collapse" is the wrong word. Same with your Viking video. It implies that they were unified, and that there was some kind of organisation that fell apart. In both cases, it would be better to say "Decline".

[niccolocaramori]

Why did the Celts decline?
Short answer: Rome

[RFmath_]

You completely skipped the Cantabrian wars where the celtic tribes gave the Romans a lot of trouble. It took longer for the Romans to conquer this small mountain region in northern Spain than it did for Caeser to conquer all of Gaul. Agrippa was so frustrated with how the campaign went that he refused to get a Triumph for it. This area is called Asturias and went unconquered by the Visigoths and Moors. It took in Christian refugees and was the birth place of the Reconquesta. They still use some celtic words in their unique language branch.

[xxxx]

3:39 - "conquered the whole of Gaul"
Well, not entirely. One small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the invaders. Life was not easy for the roman legionaires who garrisoned the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium.

[Adiscretefirm]

Didn't the Gauls sack Rome centuries before Julius Caesar was born? I think Rome had interacted with Celts a long time before the Gallic Wars.

[lucas_e_jones]

My favorite thing about the celts was that their houses were circles. This may not seems that special, but due to circle packing it caused their cities to form hexagonal blocks instead of square ones. And as every person of culture knows, hexagons are the bestagons.

[alext]

No mention of Galicia Spain and northern Portugal. Till today at festivals the play bagpipes and wear kilts.

[dhmdm]

In ancient times Celtic and Italic languages were the most closely related language families in Europe. Some linguists even describe the Indo-European branch as "Italo-Celtic". It was probably one of the factors that contributed to Romance languages almost exclusively thriving in the Celtic regions of the Roman Empire.

[kyvwupm]

Galicia and Asturias in Spain also consider themselves Celtic cultural strongholds

[elcaricaturable]

7:42 "The Celts largely disappeared from continental Europe"
The Celts were not exterminated by the Romans or by any other civilization. They mixed with the Romans and other people. What largely disappeared were the Celtic languages, not the Celtic peoples.

[joaobarroso]

I find it amazing that Hispania/Iberia is always just ignored when talking about the celts xD

[thomashavard-morgan]

As someone from Wales I'm particularly offended that you said Ireland and Scotland particularly kept their Celtic identitites, inferring that we did not. Of all the Celtic langauges Wales is the most widely spoken, our mythology and our culture endured in much the same way as the other two, it's just that Scotland and Ireland have a larger presence on the world stage, but Celtic culture is the backbone of Wale's identity.

[tiely]

1:53 "the first significant clash between the Celts and Romans came during the Gaulic wars".. this is inacurate.. the Romans and Gauls have been at each others troats for centuries: for instance the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 387BC, or Marius wars.

[panzerfury]

The "somehow" that the Romans beat Boudicca's rebellion is the same "somehow" they beat most of their other enemies, superior military tactics and unparalleled cohesion. It was always their greatest strength, until it wasn't.

[davegibson]

I believe that the Asturius region of Spain also has some remaining Celtic heritage and language. They're sometimes included and at other times not, for some reason. It would have been nice to hear what happened to Celts in other areas such as Turkey. Everyone knows about the Gauls and Boudicca, but the history of the Celts in Spain, Turkey and central Europe is almost never discussed.

[bufferly]

We Celts haven't gone anywhere, here's to another 3000 years! Onen Hag Oll!

[Kevc]

What happened to the Celts?
Not much we just chilling

[stevenrowlands]

Fun fact: the classic celtic leaf shaped bronze sword was thought to have started in modern day Germany but recent historians have found (through carbon and radiometric dating) that the oldest known celtic leaf sword was found in Wales and re-examination of germanic celtic blades has found Welsh copper used in the forging process. Thus concluding that although the celtic people did not unite they were aware of other tribes and that the British Celts and germanic Celts had a well established form of trade as there have been many diamonds found that appear to have been mined in central Europe. Ok maybe not fun but still interesting

[jacob]

The story of the Celts is truly a tragic one. But you can't solely blame their decline on foreign enemies (like the Romans, Greeks, and Carthaginians). Their decline is just as much their own fault, as they refused, in most cases, to unite against these foreign threats. This enabled their conquerors, mostly the Romans, to take them apart, piece by piece. Only the war for Gaul, and the rebellion by Boudicca, represent actual cases where Celtic peoples unified against conquest. But in both cases, it was pretty much too late to make a difference.

What happened to the Celts is a lot like what happened to Native Americans, in the 18th/19th Centuries. They did not unify well, against a common, powerful enemy, except in certain extreme cases. And by then, it was generally too late.

[finngregory]

How can you do a video about the "Celtic decline" and not mention the large influxes of Germanic tribes that caused even more displacement was almost the nail in the coffin.