The difference between ancient Celts and Germanic peoples

During the era of independent Gaul, the Gauls had a complex ethnic composition, but they were mostly Alpine, and the Germanic people were of the northern Nordic type.

Alpine type: If you don't measure the skull, the skull looks very similar to the Nordic type.

In terms of appearance, the Gauls of the Alpine type were tall but slightly shorter than the Germans, their hair was mostly light but varied, such as light yellow, flaxen, tawny, etc., and their eyes were also varied, with a high proportion of blue, gray, yellow, green, and a lot of black. The body is strong but more flexible. It can be assumed that the Gauls and today's Russians are similar in appearance (note that the two are not related).

The ancient Germanic people were tall, with a very low skull index, a hind head, and their hair color was mostly pure blonde, and their eyes were mostly blue, but not absolutely. The body is strong, but because of the level of civilization, the body is sick, and the endurance is poor.

Caesar distinguishes between the two by two criteria: one is language, and the other is the self-perception of each tribe. But it is dominated by the self-perception of the tribe.

Thus Caesar was wrong in his judgment of the Bilgites, who considered themselves Gauls of Germanic origin, but who spoke Gaul. Caesar considered them Germanic, whereas today they are recognized as Celts, but have long been mixed with Germanic peoples.

In addition, the Celts of England were mostly from the northern coast of Gaul and had long ruled by the Bills and kings, and they were the Nodic type with a high index, between the Nodic type and the Alpine type.

The Celts of Spain were mostly Alpine and Mediterranean, and their hair was mostly brown or brown at that time, and only the Galician region retained more of the original Celtic characteristics.

The Irish were the last surviving Celtic nation.

The rest of Western European countries are generally of Germanic ancestry, with Northern Europe being the purest of the kind.

You can compare Nordic to Ireland.

Presumably by region: the Germans lived on the European continent, and the Celts lived in the British Isles.

The Germanic peoples are the collective term, and the Franks are one of the branches, which invaded Rome from northern Gaul in Belgium in the 5th century AD. Because the north was a key Roman defense, the Franks were slower to advance than the invasions of other Germanic tribes, but in the end they achieved the most results, and by the time the Western Romans were finishing the game, the Franks had captured almost all of Gaul.

Later, Clovis unified the Frankish tribes, defeated the Alemanni (Germanic branch) in the east, and forced the Visigoths (Germanic branch) from southern Gaul to Spain.

During Charlemagne's time in the 8th century, the Frankish kingdom became the largest state in Western Europe, with the Low Countries, France, western Germany, and northern Italy all part of the kingdom's territory.

After Charlemagne's death, by the middle of the 9th century, the Franks were divided into three parts, West Francia, Middle Francia, and East Francia.

Later, the king of the Middle Franks became extinct, and the country was divided between West Francia and East Francia.

King Louis V of West Francia died in 987 and was succeeded by Hugo Capet, Duke of Île-de-France, who became the Kingdom of France.

The Kingdom of East Francia was transformed into the Holy Roman Empire.

The West Francians and other ethnic tribes together make up what is now the French.

The Franks were a branch of the Germanic peoples.

The answer is a Shiloh.

Here's why: Germanic peoples first originated in Scandinavia in northern Europe. Sweden, Norway, Denmark are all Germanic. Later, most of them moved south to Central Europe, with Germany being the most.

In the later part of the Roman Empire (3rd-5th century AD), the Germanic tribes east of the Rhine mainly included the Franks, Lombards, Anglos, Saxons, Vandals, etc., as well as the Goths who migrated to the lower Danube and the northern shore of the Black Sea.

At the end of the 4th century, under the pressure of the Huns from the east, the Germanic tribes were successively involved in the great migration of European peoples, thus hastening the demise of the Western Roman Empire. The Germanic peoples who entered the Roman Empire established Germanic kingdoms on the ruins of the Western Roman Empire, most notably the Visigoths who founded the Visigothic kingdom in Spain in 419 (died by the Arabs in 714); In 439, the Vandals founded the Vandals in North Africa (died in the Byzantine Empire in 534); In 568, the Lombards founded the Lombard Kingdom in northern Italy (died in the Frankish Kingdom in 774); The Anglo-Saxons entered Britain and, in the course of constant conflict with the local indigenous population, gradually merged with a considerable part of them.

Of the entire Germanic kingdoms, the Frankish kingdom was the longest and most influential.

At present, the three Nordic countries are the most original Germanic people, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other Central European countries are the main body of the Germanic people, the main ethnic groups of England Anglo and Saxon are the branches of the Germanic people, the Dutch are also the branches of the Germanic people, and Belgium is at the intersection of the Germanic and Latin cultures.

The Germanic peoples arose in Scandinavia in northern Europe, and to this day, Norway and Sweden are predominantly inhabited by purebred Germanic peoples. In Sweden, for example, Germanic people make up more than 90% of the population, in Norway about 95% of the population, and in Denmark Germanic people make up 96% of the population. They are in the same vein as their ancestors.

BC, most of the Germanic peoples moved south to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea near the Vistula River. Since then, they have multiplied in the region, increasing their tribes and populations, and gradually expanding their power to the south and west. In the first century AD, the Germanic peoples had occupied a vast area stretching from the Vistula River in the east, the Rhine River in the west, the Danube River in the south, and the Baltic Sea in the north.

The Germanic peoples of history, who looked exactly like their descendants today - the Norsemen, Germans and Austrians, were tall, fair-skinned, blond, hot-tempered, and impatient.

The Germanic peoples all include:

The North Germanic people are the Germanic people of Scandinavia. They later evolved into Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, and Icelanders.

The West Germanic peoples included: Elbe Germanic peoples such as the Svibi, which later evolved into the Schwabians, the Macomani, the Markmanns, and the Quadi and eventually the Bavarians. The North Sea Germanic peoples such as the Batawi, the Frisians, the Friesians, the Koukens, the Saxons, the Angles, the Jutes, etc., later formed the Anglo-Saxons.

Rhine-Weser Germanic peoples such as the Cherusians, the Kadi (ancestors of the Hessians), the Franks, etc.

Among the East Germanic people were the Goths, Vandals and Burgundians of the Baltic Sea.

The Germanic people were not from a certain nation, but were originally used by the Celts to refer to the barbarian tribes on the north bank of the Danube east of the Rhine who spoke a similar language. Later, these tribes also began to refer to themselves as Germanic peoples. And with the development of history, and the integration of civilizations, in fact, the Germanic peoples have spread all over Europe.

First the Norse Vikings were a branch of the Germanic peoples, and then slowly brushed up

England: England, the Anglo-Saxons of England were ruled by Germanic people from Denmark, and the Normans of the Norman Conquest were also Germanic people from Northern Europe. So the area of England was predominantly Germanic.

The Scots, on the other hand, were a mixture of Celts from continental Europe and indigenous Picts and Germanic peoples, with relatively little Germanic composition.

Wales, on the other hand, is mainly descended from the Old Celts, with a small Germanic component.

The Irish are likewise of Celtic descent and have little Germanic composition.

France, the French ethnicity consists mainly of Franks, Alsatians, Burgundians, Bretons, Corsicans, Flemishs and Basques.

The Franks, Alsatians, Burgundians, Corsicans, and Flemish were all Germanic branches, while the Bretons were closer to the Celts and were supposed to be of Gaulic descent. The Basques, on the other hand, are of Iberian descent.

The main ethnic groups in Spain are the Castilians, Catalans, Galicians and Basques, the Basques are descendants of the ancient Iberians, while the other three are mixed descendants of the Celts and Latins, which have little to do with the Germanic peoples. Portugal and Spain share the same roots, so there is no need to go into details.

Italy, the main ethnic group of Italy is the Italians, and the Italians are formed by the fusion of the Latin group and many Germanic groups, so in fact they also belong to the branch of the Germanic people.

Germany, one of the undoubtedly Germanic branches of the Germans, but in fact the concept of Germans appeared quite late.

The main ethnic groups of the Nordic countries are all Scandinavians, although they are artificially divided into Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, etc., but the language is similar and the appearance is similar. All are Germanic branches.

The Flanders region (including the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.), the undoubted Germanic branch.

Austria, the undoubted Germanic branch.

In summary, Northern Europe, England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Flanders are all predominantly of Germanic descent.

Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the Iberian Peninsula are dominated by Celtic descendants.

Eastern Europe and the Slavic Peninsula are dominated by Slavs.