Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The Real Legacy Of The Roman Invasion In Britain | King Arthur's Britain | Timeline" video.

  1. Well, Greeks naturally have a Mediterranean-centric veiw of themselves, and (combined with the Romans who conquered the Greeks in 148 BC) naturally dismiss from their narrow minds the Celts who were the dominant people north of the Alps from Britain to the West through central and Eastern Europe to Anatolia to the East (until Caesar's greedy conquest of Gaul). Although illiterate, the warlike Celts were not some poor naked savages covered in woad (which is a blue dye used by warriors to paint their faces on the battlefield, the Romans also sometimes used a red dye called minum to paint their faces), but had a sopisticated culture including intricate metalwork (a testimony to the skills of Celtic gold and silver smiths), an abstract style called curvilinear art in the La Tene style which adorned their sword scabbards and shields, but also theur iron smiths produced sophisticated weapons and armour, including long swords (the Roman gladius sword was short) and helms with metal figurine crests of animals, such as eagles with flapping wings. It's not well known but the Celts invented chain mail, long before the Roman legions adopted this body armour. Not the miserly cultural product of some poor backward rural people without cities, skilled artisans and wide trading networks including minted coins.
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