Why did Celts mostly disappeared without a trace?
>>308047
Because "Celts" do not exist, they are mostyl a 19th century invention. Each of the individual tribal groups that we now consider to be Celtic thought of themselves as completely distinct, as a result their culture has evaporated in basically all of Europe apart from the Celtic nations.
"English" people today are almost completely identical to the people of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
>>308197
>What is La Tene culture
>What is Hallstatt culture
>>308468
They didn't self identify as Celt, nor were they a unified culture or race. La Tene was dozens of tribes fighting each other.
>>308491
So? The ancient Greeks didn't all identify as Greeks either, nor were they unified culturally or ethnically.
The ancient Celts shared a religion and many cultural similarities. Look at any Celtic art and you can see similarities between them that are unique from the other cultures of Europe, mainly that swirly shit they like to put on everything.
>>308047
They didn't?
>>308047
Because they were niggers.
>>308047
They didn't modern Celts are everywhere and many countries still are Celtic
>Ireland
>Scotland
>Wales
>Brittany
>Galica
>>308581
>ancient Greeks didn't all identify as Greeks either
Whaaaah?
>>308047
no such thing as "celts"
>>308967
What the hell is someone who speaks a Celtic language then?
Their mean of expansion divided them making them weak by the time they faced the Romans.
>>308967
TIL I don't exist.
I don't know why people get so autistic about Celts, Slavs or Germanics were hardly unified either but nobody tries to claim they don't exist.
>>309037
>mfw my granny used to live in smithfield
>>308047
Ignore all the retards saying "celts don't exist." It's just an edgy opinion and lack of understanding of culture groupings.
As to why they got pushed to tiny territories, it was largely due to Germanic Expansion. Countless Germanics absorbed the celts in modern day Germany and the east. Romans also subjugated a lot of them and partially latinized them in gaul. Visigoths (and to a lesser degree burgundians) subjugated and absorbed the celts in southern gaul, as well as northern Iberia. The Franks subjugated and absorbed the Celts in northern gaul. The Anglo-Saxons displaced and/or absorbed a lot of Celts in Britain.
France is more celtic than these insular fuckers.
>>309060
poor woman
>>309069
Celts and Etruscans come from the same Macro Culture.
They brought the Alphabet and Iron to Italy.
The Celtic Insubres founded Milan around 600BC, Celtic peoples sacked Rome around 400's, and the Roman republic added Milan and its surrounds around 200BC.
Celtic peoples became Italians, those who didn't like the settled lifestyle got up and left, one notable migration out of Italy was the Boii.
The Boii wrote BOITEC on their coins.
>>309117
>BOITEC
BIATEC
>>309076
Well she got better.
>>308953
>>308581
Ancient Greeks didn't have a nationalist or pan-Hellenic identity. They did, however, identity as Greeks generally. To be Greek your city of origin had to be mentioned in Homer or have been visited by Heracles. Also if your city was a colony founded by a city meeting those criteria.
Greeks identified more on a polis basis, ie: athenians vs. thebans, acadians vs. spartans, etc.
I guess the distinction is hard to describe? They shared culture and history, but they were wholly independent self-identifying entities.
This changes a tad with the Hellenistic era, but mostly just because of the huge emphasis on giant metropolitan centres and return to monarchy.
>>308581
>mainly that swirly shit they like to put on everything.
Etruscans did that as well.
>>308744
>Galica
Wait what? Explain.
>>309217
cont -
They also worse Torcs.
>>309227
It was settled by Irish and Welsh people but they didn't impart their language, it's sometimes included among the celtic countries.
>>308047
They didn't go anywhere. The same families that were in Gaul during Caesar's wars had descendants there when the Frank's were moving in, and they still have descendants today. The only difference between a Celt, a Roman, and a Frenchman as far as history is concerned is the language they spoke.
>>309279
And culture t.b.h. though french culture is ultimately roman culture with additions.
>>309285
Yeah I was just making a simplified statement. The idea that a culture ("people)" is bound by genetics is one of the dumbest misconceptions most people make. If a traditionally Celtic tribe adopted Roman culture they became Roman, likewise if they moved across the Rhine and adopted Germanic customs they became Germans.
>>309227
A part of Spain last of Iberian Celts (may be where the Irish and scottish emigrated from to their modern home lands)
>>309821
Went to Galicia a few years ago, the "Castros" are very well preserved
>>309203
Due to the paucity of written sources we don't know what the Celts identified as. There's no proof either way.
All we have of them is an outsiders view up until we get irish and Welsh sources which were heavily edited by Christian monks around 10th century
