Zusammenfassung der Ressource
celts
- Geography
- from the year 500 B.C
until the first centuries
of the Christian era
- agriculture
- the farming methods in any given area world have been dependent
to geography and trading relationships with other tribes
- they cultivated corn, and marketed with cattle also used gold silver and iron in the army
- army
- they were the ones who best developed the iron in europe, their weapons were unique and non-tranferable, they were
manufactured for each warrior and they could not be used by someone other than their owner. they were also known
for their pride in the struggie and for their encouragement never employed the bow because they considered that to
kill an enemy at a distance was an act of cowardice
- the main weapons they used were the spear and a long sword, they also had as a custom to decapitate
their prisioners and then use the heads to decorate the walls of their houses
- social estructure
- 1)
kings-keep
the control
2)nobles
and
priests-
3)warriors-atack
and
protect
4)communers
and
craftsmens-made
-create
5)slaves-work
- beliefs
- little is know of the religious beliefs of the Celts , although it is known that they belived in life after
deadth, for this one of the most important gods to wich theyrendered worship was Donn the god
of death and ancestor of the irish and they practiced the polytheism
- burial ceremoies
- In the buarial ceremonies they worship the god Donn (god of deatd) and as they believed in life after death the deceased buried him food, weapons and tools. It was believed
that the dead came to otherwold was variousli called "delightful plain " "the land of the living" and "land of the young" and was believed to be a country wherre there was no
sickness
- Art
- Celtic art is associated with peoples of europe who spoke the
Celtic languajes from prehistory to a modern period. Celtic art
encompasses a very large culture, geography and time so much
that bronze-age art is attribited to it however some archaelogist
say that they also have an incumbency in the iron-age with spears
and shields
- Inventions
- the ancient celts invented many things. some of these are irish jigs , irish linen, scottish
plaids, scottish reels , welsh dragons , the bagpipes , the fiddle, the Celtic harp , the
longbow , soap and numerous fairy tales around 300 B.C the celts invented chainmail.
they also invented helmets , in the style that was laterused by romans. their swords and
sheilds would have been as good as the romans were if not better