Search -
The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon (1902)
The Celt the Roman and the Saxon - 1902 Author:Thomas Wright Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Ethnological Views—Political Movements in Gaul—C,esnr's first and second Invasions—Cassivellaunus—The Britons, as described by Caesar, Strabo, and... more » Diodorus—Cunobeline and his Sons—Expedition of Claudius—Conquests of the earlier Propraetors—Caractacus--Car- tisuiandua and Venusius—Invasion of Moua—Insurrection of Boadi- cea—War with the Brigantes—Campaigns of Agricola—Total Sub- jif tion of the Island to Rome—Enumeration of the British Tribes— Hibernia—Manners of the Britons, as described by ancient writers— The Druids. According to the system now generally adopted by ethnologists, Europe was peopled by several successive migrations, or, as they have been technically named, waves of population, all flowing from one point in the east. Of these the two principal were the Celts and the Teutons or Germans, both branches of the same great race, which has been popularly termed the Japhetau, because, according to the Scriptural account, the various peoples which belonged to it were all descended from Japhet. The Celts came first in point of time, and, making their way apparently through the districts bordering on tin: Mediterranean, they spread over all Western Europe. The German nations, entering Europe from the shores of the Black Sea, advanced through its central parts, till, coming in contact with the Celts, they gradually drove them forwards to the west and south-west. The Germans themselves were urged westward by a new migration which was pressing upon them from behind, that of the Sclavonic or Sarutatian race, which, as early as the time of the Greek historian Herodotus, that is, in the middle of the fifth century before Christ, had already established itself on the eastern borders of Europe. Of the successive movements of these nations, and the mutual struggle...« less