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To: MacDorcha
And Scythians were Indo-European CELTS. You're thinking strictly in the Brittany-Irish celts. There were even Iberian Celts (until the arabs came to Spain)

The Indo-Europeans were largely Celtic, and had the same social structure. I don't know where you got your deffinitions.



The Scyths were a mixture of different tribes -- Germanics, Slavs, Turkics maybe even Celts (doubtful as the Celts were the first to move West to what is now France and the UK).

What you call Prussia is now part of Poland, before the 12th century it was part of the Slavic lands, before that, the Germanics were living in what is now Western Russia.

The Indo-Europeans were not largely Celtic, the largest numbers of Indo-Europeans were Aryans (India, Persia) followed by (in no particular order) Germanics, Italics, Greeks, Celtics and Slavs.
30 posted on 03/19/2005 9:21:29 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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To: Cronos

"The Indo-Europeans were not largely Celtic, the largest numbers of Indo-Europeans were Aryans"

The Aryans (Indo-Europeans) had the caste system that the Celts (not the Slavs nor the Germanics tribes) used. It was the same social structure, same origins, similar language. This cannot be said of the Germanic tribes.

The Celts didn't ONLY settle in Brittany region, but the Irish and Brittany Celts you are reffering to were the only celts to do so.

You seem to forget the "Celtic" at this time period refers to almost 5 different groups. Brittany being one. (Made up Brits and Welsh) Irish being another (Irish and Scottish) Iberians (Spain) Then there were the Gauls and one whose names elude me. The first lived on the northern border of the Alps, the second lived on the western border of the Russian Steppes (Prussia) and made up a substantial portion of the "scythian" tribes. The last tribe is likely to have come (or at least have bloodlines into) the mongol hordes.

The Gauls also made the Galatians (from which we get the name of a book in the Bible.)


36 posted on 03/20/2005 8:40:58 AM PST by MacDorcha ("You can't reverse engineer something that was not engineered to begin with")
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