The Celts - BBC Series Ep 2 - "Heroes in Defeat"
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Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com In the third episode of the series, the program examines the heyday of the Celts, the La Tene era. It was tribal, and women were often the leaders: warriors, bards, druids, artists and craftsmen. Their little known settlements as well as their massive hill forts tell of inhabitants who traded within and beyond Europe. But then the Celts clashed with the Romans and highly developed culture fell apart. The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. This program looks at who the Celts were, where they came from and what made their culture so distinctive.
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I read the comments to find out what the Brits thought about the program and to get their own ideas about the Celts, but mostly what I see is everybody griping about the music; that's not what I expected.
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music . extremely intrusive inappropriate and irritating for the most part.
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The Island of Skye was called by romans: SCITES, which means "scythian"
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The Tarim Basin (in nowadays China) mummies were not celts but scythians. Proven by the DNA
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STFU about the music
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the music and the dick speaking piss me right off, im fucking off to Nat geographic or cbeebies
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As in the earlier episodes the background music is extremely annoying.
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I hate the music... Can't they play something else, or even bette, nothing at all
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The music is to and detracts from the document.
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Boudicca was not defeated at Camulodunum. The Britons razed the town then went onto defeat Londinium. They turned north up Watling Street and went on to Verulamium, modern day St Alabans, and destroyed that town also. They continued north west and were met by the Roman Legion led by Suetonius coming south on Watling Street from Anglesey where they had finished off the Druids. The Britons were defeated and the exact demise of Boudicca is unknown.
The revolt traumatised Rome so much that Nero was considering leaving Britain altogether but after the victory of Suetonius rebellion was at an end except for one by the Brigantes in AD69 which was soon quelled. -
In episode 1 they said the Celtic people where not in Britain and in this one Britain is part of the Celtic world???
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Although informative, this documentary is heavily British. The effect of english colonialism is seen throughout the world in the past and present colonies of the Empire, loss of a people, their customs, language and way of life all for the good of the commonwealth. Well, the goods always flowed one way. The colonizers of North America learned this well from their progenitors and used it to ruthless efficiency. God save the King's.
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Good Doc, but wish they had more maps giving more information on these locations
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Its funny how all the people complaining about the music dont realize its pretty much the same chord progressions that you'd find in "epic movies". Good going.
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Contrary to what is said in this documentary, the Celts did not 'lack discipline' as such, nor was discipline and tactics necessarily the only reasons why the Romans won. The Romans had what was by the standards of the time a modern professional army, with different specialized branches. The Celts had warrior-retinues backed by peasant levies. Sure, the peasant levies by definition would have been so well trained or disciplined, but the professional warrior-class would have been. Some of which had on occasion fought under the Romans. Vercingetorix, for example, was previously a cavalryman in Julius Caesar's army before he assumed the leadership of the Arverni.
Caesar's own writings, the Commentarii De Bellico Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic Wars), Caesar mentions the Gauls, Belgae and even the Germanic Suebi forces fighting in what he described as phalanx formations.
And the Galatian army which entered Turkey during the 270's BCE numbered just over six thousand warriors, backed up by their womenfolk and children. A force this size would never have survived against multiple foes like the Seleucids, the Pergamanese, the Bithynians or the Pontics in Turkey if they never learned the value of strategy or tactics. -
The Tarim Basin mummies in China are not Celts. They're most likely of Scythian (Indo-Iranian) origin. Scythians were frequently nomadic. The Celts occasionally migrated to new lands, but they devoted themselves to agriculture and built permanent settlements and forts, which they would not have done were they nomads!
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Yea but The Romans never let up on conquests, so The Keltoi kept the tradition even if they were mainly their own tribes and only united once totally toward the so called end. It took the Romans a hundred years to defeat The Celts.. (Another documentary perhaps) The Celts conquered Rome at least once and left.
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Decided to stop watching because this series has the most annoying music ever... ever ever... no it didn't grow on me since the first part. :( too bad, cause the documentary is awesome
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A couple of those letters look like aramaic or hebrew
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