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The Ancient Celts

What do you think of when you hear Celts? You probably think of their music, tattoos, and Braveheart. The Celts lived in the area from Northern Scotland all the way to Southern Portugal, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. They lived in between 500 B.C and 500 A.D. The ancient Celtic culture has developed into the modern day culture of Ireland And Scotland.From the ancient Celts they have passed on their dancing, bagpipes,kilts (a man skirt usually worn for tradition), haggis (a food that contains the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep or a calf minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings and boiled in the stomach of the animal) ,sports (stone put, caber throw, and the hammer throw), scissors, daily use of soap, crossbows, and longbows.

An equally important and fascinating part of Celtic culture, however, was its war statics, warriors, and weapons was important to the Celt because they needed to protect the people in their tribes and they had to protect their land. We can learn more about this culture aspect by looking at the Celtic Warriors, weapons, and their war tactics.

Celtic warriors were different from some other cultures. The warriors did not any armor until 200 B.C. Celts would fight naked until when they made chainmail and leather armor The Celts would not wear any armor.

Celtic weapons were a big part of their history. A celtic warriors favorite weapon was a sword. Swords were mostly made of iron. The gaesum spear, javelin, Celtic shield, Celtic scabbard and the sword were some of the weapons that Celts used. Some of the Celts preferred some other weapons too.

Some of the war tactics are kinda different from other cultures. Most of the time a the normal swordsman would be a heavy infantryman. Also they typically fought unarmored and in a battle line. The centerpiece of the Celtic war tactics was the mass charge.

By now you might have asked yourself, What happened to the Celts? Well the Romans and the Celts had a big war that pushed the Celts back to Ireland and Scotland. The Celts lost all that land from Southern Portugal. Some of the things that the Celts left behind are kilts, bagpipes, scissors

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