This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler and you're listening to volume three the classical world

episode 34 the Battle of Alicia. The The ancient city of Alicia is situated in the modern Coate Door Department of France. The south coast of France was colonized by traveling Greeks who founded

the modern city of Marseille. Elsewhere in French lands we don't really have much in the way of written accounts of who was doing what

before the period of the Roman expansion into these lands. There's no doubt that these lands would have had many agricultural

settlements engaged in international trade with all of their European

neighbours both across land and sea.

Now if we try to link what we have already discovered during this

podcast series to the people of this area of modern France, then we should take a closer

look at the Earnfield Culture of Central Europe. We mentioned the Earnfield Culture when

summarising volume 2 during episode 37.

The Ermfield culture was a Bronze Age culture who have been suggested to have spoken an early form of Celtic language and possibly

an ancestor of the Italian languages of the pre-Roman Italian Peninsula.

As those descendants of the Earnfield culture who lived in Central Europe became expert metal

workers, their culture would evolve into what is historically referred to as the

House that culture.

The people of this culture were tribal, and their settlements were no more than small towns at most.

Some of the tribes slowly migrated westwards towards the lands of the modern country of France and would evolve to become

the Latten culture which was somewhat contemporary to the rise of the Roman Republic.

The Gauls were people who lived in the modern day country of France

and they are associated with this Latin culture which is a Celtic

culture. These people would touch those cultures of the Iberian Peninsula and the amalgamation would be the

Celt Iberians of the lands of the modern country of Spain, who were the ones who had to deal with

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