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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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To: MacDorcha
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.

Please could you elaborate on that? I've never heard of the Celts having a caste system.

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.

The Celts were based only in Western Europe, West and south of the Germanics.

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

The Galatians were the results of the GAulish expansion south in the 3rd century BC when they attacked Rome and then moved south to take over what became Galatia.
44 posted on 03/20/2005 4:14:30 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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