Why did the Celts Collapse?

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.

"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".

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.

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.

Why did the Celts decline? Short answer: Rome

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

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

its really nice to see my peoples culture talked about there was a fair bit of mistakes in this video but thank you for making it and please do make more videos on my people

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.

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.

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.

It would have been interesting if you also showed a map of its archaeological legacy outside the British Isles and the recovered languages, as well as Celtiberian and Galician-Lusitanian

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

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.

Hi There! It was a great video.That is because,it went into details to discuss the overall celts history and culture and its impact on subsequent time.Scotland,Ireland and rest of the UK as well as France share history because of celts culture. Thanks.

I love the Celts. One of the most fascinating people to ever exist. They didn't really collapse or decline but just intermarried and blended into other European cultural groups such as England which has a strong Celtic hybrid culture mixed with Saxon, Viking and Norman influences. ( The same case in France and the rest of Europe.) The Celtic Countries ( Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall etc ) have thrived strongly to this day. I am sure most Europeans today have some Celtic DNA in their family tree. As a Zimbabwean, I have been honoured to find many Celtic ( from Scotland and Ireland ) ancestors in my family tree from the UK.

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.

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.

Thanks. I am learning a lot from your videos. 😍👍

Galicia and Asturias in Spain also consider themselves Celtic cultural strongholds