Why did the Celts and Gauls failed to keep the Romans in check and stuck in Italy?
Celtic civilization had more or less collapsed centuries prior when their salt deposits started wearing thing. Rome was able to import huge amounts of foreign grain to swell it's population, something that the Celtic states couldn't do.
>>17412949Dozens of mostly independent, and usually rival tribes with no common agenda.
The settled agriculture man wins again
>>17412949Celts won? Romans left hardly any mark on any of those areas besides helping establish successful cities, also everyone from Scotland to Switzerland to most of Northern Italy and even parts of Czechia is still genetically Celt to this day.
Celtish excellence.
>>17413496>Romans left hardly any mark on any of those areasYou're right. Only small things like, you know :Language.Religion.Political structure.Calendar.Litterature and arts.Social hierarchy.Being the empire that everyone refers to almost 15 centuries after its end.
"Why did Europeans fail to keep the Americans in check?"The answer to both questions is simple, bickering over tiny pieces of land and personal grudges and failing to think long term.
>>17413496Czechs have barely any hallstatt ancestry, sub 10%
>>17412949>Why did the Celts and Gauls failed to keep the Romans in check and stuck in Italy?Rome had already conquered like half the Mediterranean by the time Julius Caesar went for Gaul. If anything, it's impressive the Gauls maintained their independence so long next door to Rome.
