Caesars.Doomsday.War.2021.1080p.WEB.h264-BAWD

[PART 1] As the Celts left no written records, all view on them was shaped by Roman writers, who portrayed them as inferior barbarians whose submission enabled civilizing, but archaeology supplies growing evidence they were way less primitive. That goes double for the Gauls, whose conquest was the key achievement of Julius Caesar, whose own autobiographic-apologetic account 'De Bello Gallico' is the only major source, obviously utterly biased, less to facts as to appreciations. We now learn the Celtic tribes achieved wealth, probably mainly by advanced agriculture, making them a rick prey. Brennan's sacking of Rime eight centuries ago made them the hereditary arch-enemy. Rome already had turned Cisalpine Gaul (the Po plain) and Narbonnensis (now SE France)into early provinces, but the ambitious Caesar used his term as proconsul with free hand and army as his opportunity to amass fortune (paying off huge electoral campaign debts) and fame for his bid for power in Rome. He was t play rival tribes against each-other and manipulated the Helvetic tribes migration to the Atlantic coast to subdue the nearby leading tribes in the heartland, later smashing tribes all around, often in bloodbaths, notably after rebellion, like Ambiorix' Eborunes, who disappeared from history. The major tribe's chief had been executed for attempting kingship against the democratic tradition, but his son Vercingetorix, a Roman hostage and gifted legionnaire, returned home to become chief and leader of a national alliance able to challenge Caesar's whole army.