Rethinking the Gauls: A Civilised Society before the Romans | Archeology & History Documentary
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- The idea of the primitive Gauls, living in the forest until they were civilized and assimilated into the Roman Empire, is now regarded as totally obsolete. In this film, archaeologists and historians uncover Gaulish settlements to reveal the true face of the Gauls. A civilisation with high level of craftsmanship, that prized trade, developed cities and developed their own culture and religion. A civilisation that left their own mark on Europe…
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Great to know more about my ancient ancestors throughout history
Finally I'm so sick of all the one sided stories about Gaul and ancient France and taking roman propaganda as unquestionable fact. Its way past time we used modern archeology and science to uncover the truth.
I hope someday gaul comes back
The French are the results of All these gallic tribes who prefered submit to the Romans... Or were "invited" to submit.....
Today France culture is mainly latin., or gallo roman. The germanic influences were not so important, only in political organizations, mit language which has been influenced by frankish...
But the truth is that it was certain my really exciting to become a roman citizen
@@pierrebachelier4649 "Preferred to submit" what the hell? Are you not at all familiar with Vercingetorix and the overwhelming genocide Caesar carried out against Gaul? With the help of the Germans that were instrumental in the Gaul's defeat no less.
Fact is they lost to the Romans
@@johngil3692 so did everyone the Roman’s fought against because they had the world’s first professional army.
Such a precious documentary, thank you ever so much! Shared for sure!
Fantastic documentary. Not many good English documentaries on ancient Gaul and the other Ancient European civilizations
The people were French, or spoke the French language.
@@blueocean2510No not at all.
The first place of filming is exactly how I would imagien it to be the place of the gauls.. I love this footage.. thanks :)
Can't wait for Dacian documentary, a military powerhouse of the eastern Europe north of Danube
Vercingetorix also had a good understanding of Roman politics. He knew Caesar had limited support from Rome and was rather infamous with the senate. Where he to be able to defeat him in Alesia the senate would smell blood.
They already did not approve of his expedition and the funds needed to sustain it. A major defeat in Alesia would cut Caesar off from any more funding and would start to lose influence with all Romans, leading him to make a choice: Continue with the Gallic Wars with what he has left and risk both losing his consulship and possibly even be declared a rouge Roman general (or whatever the Roman term would be, like..."traitorous maximous" or something idk.) by the senate.
Or Take his chances in a civil war early to become Rome's dictator (which he would perhaps succeed by sheer tactical superiority alone or fail due to lack of support.) yet he would have to make peace with Vercingetorix and abandon the Gallic Wars entirely and even should he win , after the civil war he would have his hands full with maintaining his power and status. (and possibly life since we all know how that story ended.)
Either way a victory in Alesia would change history FOREVER. (And honestly it is rather a shame we have not seen such a world. One where Rome is not the center of the world, but one where Greeks, Romans, Gauls and other culturally rich civilizations shape it all.)
Would be great if it was possible with humans. But for me I don't think about this type of thing because human nature has always been to dominate each other and jealousy. If Rome didn't invade the others eventually would have, & destroyed it much earlier. Most things we learned from them would have never survived if they minded their own business, and things that made life a bit easier would have taken us longer to figure out.
I mean...had he lost at Alesia, he would probably either be dead or die very shortly afterward anyway.
My ancestry was all French. My surname (Hardi) was apparently born in France. My ancestors were farmers in Canada, the first being Jean Hardy who came from Le Havre in 1650s to Quebec City, New France. It seems that Hardys migrated to England much earlier and multiplied more prolifically than in France. There were so many attacks and invasions by Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Vikings etc., who knows how much of that is in my genes. It seems likely that my ancestors were the Celts or Gauls.
Nobody cares about your life story just watch the documentary
You never know. My whole life I thought that my ancestors were European Jewish as well as Germanic. Turns out I'm entirely western European with the tiniest smidge of Baltic. Those ancestry kits are pricey, but I recommend them.
@@whitbyabbey4830 Germany is in western europe and Jewish is a person who follows judaism
@@johnbell1522 if that were the case then Ashkenazi Jew would not show up in anyone's ancestry results.
And as for German, yes it's in there. But it's pretty minor compared to the Celtic and Nordic results. The southernmost tip on my genetic map is Switzerland, and the furthest east are the Baltic States.
Nothing that would indicate anything from the middle east, such as Israel.
@@whitbyabbey4830 Norse are Germanic
Thanks very much, that was very good.
Love the bus passing in the background of the war council scene!
Never ever did the Romans defeated a little village in Gaul. The druid in that village made a secret potion that helped them to withstand the Roman legions for decades. This was the first time in history that the strong legions were bombarded with menhirs. These Gaul loved wild boar and had a bard, who could use a traditional Gaul song to make a pirate ship sink and Roman legions run. The leader of this village was the heroic Abraracourcix.
Don't forget they also were capable of making magical potions which gave you super strength!
Gauls, like their cousins in Germania, Scandinavia, Britain and Ireland built in timber not stone
The Druids know how to communicate with the Universe. You can hide nothing from Druids!
did they have magic potion?
Of course Getafix made it for them. 😁
@@Norse-Gael1974 In the French version, Its Panoramix ^^ Like "Panoramique" (Panorama).
Powers
The Celts were on both sides of the English Channel right? The English vs French was people fighting other people with likely shared ancestry, it seems to me.
Yes
It may be called English channel but it is a European channel.
The gauls are the celtic population that specifically inhabited France and some territories surrounding it.
The English are Germanic and the French use to be Germanic but cosplay as Latin.
@@Drewski-hw1yi
italian immigration and napoleonic propaganda brainwashed them into thinking they were latin
23:45 Did the Gauls have cars?
No mate that's called a horse
That was a dog
Chariot
I'm always a bit weary when the French make a documentary about "their" Gauls. They tend to forget about the Belgae, who were also Gauls, but German inspired as opposed to the Southern Gauls being more Italian/Roman inspired. Belgians were eighty per cent Germanic Kelts and the rest were Gauls. The seven Belgian tribes lived on a territory from approximately a hundred kilometres above today's Paris, over Cologne in the east and up-and-over Holland's Deep. Belgae were renowned for brewing beer and mead, not making wine.
How do you claim this? We all know where the Merovingians come from!
Who would have more info on the Gauls than the French themselves? If the documentary is made by the French of course they will want to focus more on the tribes that inhabited in what is now France.
Let the French have something a level above croissants, baguettes, kissing, and pommes frittes for GOD'S sake lol. I mean they're still getting shit for their WW2 blunders...
We gave you the Statue Of Liberty, you silly ignorant yankees. I'd say that dwarfs pommes frites and baguettes as far as cultural contributions go. Americans and Brits are so tiresome with their historical revionism and arrogance, if it isn't about them they don't give a crap.
Caesar breaks it down in his book. There’s short haired Gaul and there’s long haired Gaul. Vercengetorix people the Arverni are from short haired Gaul, in the central massif, and they’re a pretty civilized people with a capital city and a senate. But they live on the border of long haired Gaul, and once you get past that it’s almost indistinguishable from the Germanic peoples beyond the Rhine. Caesar calls the Belgae Gauls but it’s not clear if they’re proper “celts”. And reading about the Merovingians and Soissons 500 years later it’s not clear who is a Roman and who is a Frank
Every time the narrator said oppidum instead of oppida when referring to them in the plural I was close to getting a stroke. This is such an easy and small thing to get right, especially for a documentary, and getting it wrong screams ignorance and casts doubt on everything else in the documentary.
I know some academic out there is calculating the reparation figure Italy owes to France for shits and giggles
I wish you left all of the credits
rome just thought they were creepy bc it was always misty in gaul lands. or at least thats how they always show it in the movies lmaooooo
3:14 The who??? Lol
I thought the Roman’s conquered Gaul … all no, one small village still holds out against the invaders.
Astrix
I can no longer read .. So can not understand what they're saying..
Learn to read, there are schools everywhere.
That seal at introduction has morfed into other British royal seals. ✌️One tradition these people had that probably wasn't added to this reconstruction was the offerings to the tree's you were chopping. Remember you were chopping a living object down without regard. Human behavior, typical human. Self. ✌️☘️
That being Pagan!!
Typical human? how do you think nature works? ... have you watched any wildlife programmes lately?
Ahahahahahah
Coinage seems to indicate CAPITALISM!
It certainly does not.
If the Gauls were so advanced, why didn't they have aqueducts, bridges, circuses and such and if they had they were far from the size and complexity of the Romans'?
Why did they lose when they outnumbered the romans between 5 and 10 to 1 ?
Perhaps the Gauls were not living inside the forest but still they lost to Julius Caesar because their military was way less developed and organized and at that time (even now actually) the organization and power of an army is a direct connection to its country.
They were a very non-hostile, self-sufficient group. They didn't have some intrinsic need to attack other peoples or lands.
They likely had many more monuments and buildings than remain today. Because the Jude0-Roman power did everything to wipe this civilisation from the earth and history.
Every holy site desecrated by building churches on top. Every village burnt down and replaced by a Jude0-Roman plantation on top.
Every bridge likely rebuilt with Roman architecture.
If a serial killer employs sadistic, advanced tools to subdue and erase someone. Does that meanthis serial killer is "more advanced"?
The Romans only were able to build those roads and monuments using (Gaulic) slaves.
If the gaul enslaved the Romans to the same degree and got wealthy off of them they would have had more military and architectural prowess as well.
I don't think a more self-oriented, symbiotically oriented society is necessarily "inferior" or "worse" at all.
They had different aims.
What is a great failiure of the Gauls is not rising up to the need for advancement and war to be a ble to deal with scum like the Jude0-Roman power.
Being a self-oriented, symbiotic attitude population is all good but defending your existence and mercilessly killing off scum like the Judeans, Romans is the first priority.
You can not exist, let alone synbiotically unless you can defend yourself and continuously eradicate those that threaten your people and the possibility of symbiotic relations between worthy peoples.
@@zteaxon7787 Not hostile? Explain Galatians, explain the sack of Rome and explain the rapid expansion across such vast stretches of Europe. Judeo-Roman power? I guess you never heard of the Jewish uprisings.
They are descendants of Noah's son Japhet, so of course they knew how to drink wine and probably traded for the best wine that came from their ancestry in and around the black sea.. And of course they knew how to build large structures. God taught man to build ships and then they were building large cities under the orders of Nimrod.
14:00 everyone at the feast sharing the same cup would've been a very, very effective and efficient way for virus's, germs, and diseases the spread. Even though the ancient peoples didn't know germ theory, even the Romans had picked up on the fact that sharing the same container you were going to put your lips on was a bad idea. This is a mark against the idea of this show, and shows the Romans were somewhat right about them being barbaric.
That's funny. Romans liked to use communal sh**t-houses and shared a single sh**tstick butt-wiper between many for cleaning purposes. Disgusting. They were also really into slavery, mass genocide and considered brutal violence and suffering a form of light entertainment.
Yes, and the Romans also thought the Gauls were barbaric for using soap to wash themselves.
Bet you didn't know that 😉
It also seems that the romans had not entirely picked up on the dangers of sharing individual commodities, seeing as they used a communal sponge to wipe their ass after defecation. Which seems a tad more dangerous than merely sharing a drink... but you tell me.
🤨 Didn’t Romans use lead pipes for drinking water?
Exactly….so let’s hit them up for reparations. 😜
Pure guess work built on a few trinkets and Roman writings....It was so long ago and so much was lost due to the natural processes of erosion and deposition of the lands that occurred over the centuries....We know more about the Gauls that was written by the Romans than the Gauls...
Not a few trinkets, more like massive excavations showing entire massive fortifications and large hoards of items.
@@camulodunon Typical Roman fanboy to brush all that off and chalk it up to just "a few trinkets" in their determination to give an unfair representation of the Gauls.
And these Roman writings have often been proven to be propagandistic and even outright inaccurate by the “guess work” shown by the archaeological record. You Romaboos are so delusional…
Because the Gauls did not document their history or mythology.
And both Roman and Greek writtings about them are more than likely biased against them since they considered them "barbarians". (despite the Romans copy pasting many things from them.) Many of which claims they make about them are WAY too illogical to even take seriously. (like that "wicker man" supposed sacrifice which is ludicrous. It is a waste of time, material and not to mention, QUITE IMPOSSIBLE EVEN BY TODAYS STANDARTS TO DO WITH MERE WOOD AND STICKS and even if the Gauls where the best of craftsmen, making just ONE of these things would requite a lot of manpower and be way too expensive, time consuming, impractical and stupid!)
Perhaps they once even had recorded some things but it would not be out of the question for ceasar to burn it all to ensure they remain known as the infamous barbarians the Romans claimed them to be in the years to come, so that people will glorify his genocide over them.
Archeological evidence is the closest we can get to facts, about them. (And keep in mind, I am Greek. That however dose not mean that I take all the words my ancestors made as "facts", I can recognize propaganda when i see it.)
I guess we have to rethink all of our historical narratives now that the West is in decline ...
Not to much exists in the West but the Atlantic, there is more in the East.
I do NOT speak French.. So could not understand most of this.
There's subtitles.
@@tibsky1396 They don't help much because they are written in white and very difficult to see.
French is worth learning, but with Brexit and restrictions on travel for people from former EU state, the channel ferries and tunnel may now close, to protect borders.
@MissWitchiepoo but... I'm on a small mobile phone and it's still no trouble to simply read the captions
@@MissWitchiepooditto. Very indistinct subtitles
The subtitles are hard to read on a white or light background. Just WHY can't you dub English over the foreign speakers! This really makes this a poor documentary.
WHY don't you just learn French. It'll make you less of a shallow person.
The Gauls did not speak English, a possible reason why it is not used in the film. Do you think Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage voted for Brexit to support Russia?
@@blueocean2510 Gauls did not speak French either...
@@aleksandersokal5279 Expect they used the language of the Gauls.
@@blueocean2510 The archaeologists clearly speak French.
How do you go from Charlemagne and Napoleon to the WW2 GENERAL'S?
no one should have to rethink anything.
we are now in an era in which everyone creates his own personal fantastic story, in order not to admit Roman supremacy.
you have to accept it. we kicked your ass. now revisit the story
they didn’t create anything they found it tf you talking about😭
"We"? lol who do you think you are, couch legionnaire?
@@feldgrau2664 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Roman larpers are really cringe
That’s true, many people do make up their own fantastical version of history… you are an excellent example.
Oh so unlike every single other human being alive around in 100 BCE the Gauls were a temperate bunch and they only drank in celebratory occasions. Man that's the biggest crock of CRAP I heard on any documentary in months and I watch docs like like communists watch rape videos and that's most of what they do. We got an archaeologist in a sea of amphorae describing how the Gauls got the cheap stuff in comparison and with this 'less than good' wine they celebrated huh? That's what's called 'Expost facto propaganda'. I had some Japanese a-hole try to convince me there was no Bataan Death March, Unit-731 or kamikazes. When people pay attention to the world around them the BS doesn't get through. I still like the video overall though, I consider it a worthwhile documentary to watch.
What a weird, silly comment.
They didn't say that they only drank any alcohol on celebratory occasions. They said that they only drank WINE on celebratory occasions, because it was a rare imported commodity.
@@camulodunon No evidence for that either. The rich would have drunk it when it suited. Maybe the average person only had access to wine during certain feasts but that's different to saying no one touched wine outside of special celebrations.
I have to agree about the amphora, it seems the guals were actually regularly drinking themselves stupid...
I commented too early… too much French with subtitles. I want to put these on to fall asleep to, not listen to ppl who’s language sounds like somebody permanently hocking a loogie
If there's one language that doesn't sound like a loogie, it's French.
@@tibsky1396 agree to disagree my friend lol I suppose it depends on who’s speaking it 🤷🏻♂️