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Most notably in the region, the Romans name was Gaul.

Now, I've seen the word Gaul since I was a little kid and I used to read you know, watch Asterix and say, I've never actually know where it was. No, I'm exactly saying, I don't know much about them. Gaul was the territory that overlapped with various parts of Monnet, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy,

Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

So it's a really big bit of Central Europe, yeah.

So the dominant culture of pre-Roman Gaul,

oh dear, your friend of mine, was Celtic.

Oh!

I knew we mattered.

I knew somewhere along the line somewhere we mattered.

The question is, Elle, how did you let it slip through your fingers?

Yeah.

And the Celti, this is what the people seem to have called themselves,

that is if Caesar is to be believed, the Celti.

Now, the military campaign described by Caesar in his commentaries on the Gallic War,

began in 58 BCE, lasted until 50 BCE,

and it led to the Roman conquest of the region, and even saw Caesar cross the English channel to Britannia, the first serious attempt to anchor Britain, which was seen as a very wayward island to the Republic.

Now, remarkably, and I didn't know this either, almost all of what we know about this period of Roman history and of Caesar's life comes directly from his own writing.

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