A Canned History of the Celtic People

The history of the Celts is a complex and confusing history. There are hundreds of different accounts of the origins, migrations, and disbursements of the Celtic culture. Although it seems impossible to go through all of the history books and find one that is actually has the same stories as the other, most of the underlying themes throughout all of the stories are the same. It is not hard to see that as the Celtic culture continued to grow and expand throughout the world, the history took on different meanings and views with each person, but as for the originality of the history, most of the Celtic culture agrees with each other unknowingly.

The biggest factor in the origin of the history of the Celts is the massive amount of migrations that the culture did. The original Celtic culture started in central Europe and they traveled into the British area and the French area of the European world at the beginning of AD. These cultures were eventually overrun and conquered by the Roman culture that was the strongest group at that time. One of the biggest reasons is that the Celtic culture was mainly a large amount of different tribes; there was no one ruler that was in control of all of the Celtic people.

The Celtic history was not even recorded by them. The Greeks recorded the first writings about the Celtic culture, making it almost impossible to know when the original Celts first appeared. This makes it even harder to really say where the history of the Celts originated. Many of the original languages that the Celtic people is recorded using does not even exist anymore. So, without a actual description of where their culture started, their stories began during the Roman times when the Greeks recorded what type of people they were.

One of the interesting things about the Celtic people was the ability to advance through the class ranks. As in all of the cultures in the Roman times, there were many different class ranks where the rich people stayed rich and the poor people had to stay poor. If a child was born into a certain class, they would live in that class for the rest of their life.

But, in the Celtic tribes, a child had the opportunity to gain in his class in many different ways. Through war and commerce, the Celtic culture was allowed to advance in their society and not remain in the same place they were when they were born.

The Celtic culture did not raise their families in the traditional way in their time. Their family was considered a clan and it basically entitled their entire village. The children were rarely raised by their actual birth parents and most of the time raised by someone in the clan. The clans were related to other clans that were called tribes and this is how the tribes originally became a culture. The tribes would usually gather around once every so often and worship a common god. The uncommon thing was that the different tribes did not associate with each other. They were separate cultures based on the Celtic values and way of life, but they never actually formed a civilization.

The Celtic culture continued to attack and try to conquer all of Britain. If they would have been more organized and less concentrated on their individual clans, they may have had a fighting chance.

The cultures eventually, just as they had begun, continued to disburse. They spread out throughout Britain, Europe, and eventually the western civilizations. They are a very strong culture today and respect their heritage. The Celtic history is covered with battles, war, and warriors, but somehow, the Celtic culture remembers the best parts of their cultures and not the worst.

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