RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA                                              

                                                                                                                                               2nd Century BC

200 BC The first Belgic migration into Albion / Briton occurred with the Celtic Germani who were known along the Rhine in the Celtic settlements east of the river, and where there were Celtic place names as far east as the River Weser and the River Elbe with the term Germani at this time being a tribal Celtic name used for all the intruders, who were to also have an army in Gaul (France and part of Spain) later on, during Caesar’s time who arrived there from across the Rhine River.

       The Celts, as a distinct emerging People, were now to decline due to their specific Culture of refusing to combine their forces under one particular leader, and it now began to occur under the might of the continuing Roman Military expansion, except in Ireland.

      There were also incursions into Gaul now by the Teutonic Cimbri Septs / Family branches and the other Teutonic Septs, which nevertheless was to bring on a situation of defendable Celtic settlements to try and ward off their individual attacks with the Celtic tribal regions in Gaul bing very large, as they had been earlier in the north of Italy, as opposed to those Tuaths / Family regions in Ireland, with 60 of the Celtic Septs in Gaul being on the move and ready for battle who had evolved during the Celtic Hallstatt and La Tene Cultures. (The Celtic Boii Sept who had remained in Bohemia who had also settled in to the north of Italy were later to also migrate into Gaul.)

     The Celtic Volcae / Walha Sept who were next to the Boii Sept in the Middle European region may have actually been part of the Celtic Volcae Tectosages Septs who were to be in the south of Gaul and also Asia Minor, while the Celtic Senone Septs were not only in the north of Italy, but also in the north of Central Gaul. The Celtic Suessione Septs who were in Central Spain were also in Belgic Gaul, and the Celtic Briturigie Septs were to also be in two different areas,notably to the south of the Lorre and to the west of Gironde. From the 2nd  Century BC to the 1st Century BC the whole of Gaul (France and part of Spain) was to be composed of the Celts who were to be in retreat from across the Rhine River, as the ongoing annihilation of the Celts was begun by Roman expansion once again, except for in Ireland. The first Celtic region to be lost had previously occurred in the north of Italy, as nearly all of the Celts who were in Italy had already submitted to the overall growing strength of the Romans, with Claudius Marcellus even accepting the Celtic single combat challenge of Virdomarus the Celtic leader of the Insubres Septs in the north who he was then able to defeat and kill. The Celtic resistance in Spain, part of Gaul, was to be a series of ongoing indecisive campaigns by the Romans that would continue on throughout this Century highlighting at this time the Roman Military incompetence and their cruel aggression carried out against the Celtic Septs there.

195 BC The Roman Military forces on the Continent had by now subdued the Celts of Cis - Alpine Gaul (France) and introduced them further to the Latin language, and because of this the old Celtic schools run by the Druids from then on continued to spread the Latin language throughout the Celtic Septs. The Iberno - Celtic / Gaelic Irish was to turn out to be the best Celtic language as it preserved the Latin roots better.

192 BC Roman Military supremacy was by now well and truly throughout Cis - Alpine Gaul  / France and this saw the end of Cisalpine Gaulish independence altogether there with the Romans also able to defeat the Boii Septs at their stronghold at Bologna.

189 BC Gnaeus Manlius Volso who was a Roman Consul was now sent to also defeat the Celtic Septs in Asia.

175 BC The Catuvellauni Septs who were Belgic settlers in Albion / Briton were the original tribal clients of the Remi when the Romans were to conquer Gaul.

153 BC The important Celtic settlement of Numantia was this year besieged by the Roman Military with elephants, but the Celts were able to drive them off.

159 BC The Celts at this time began to migrate into the south of Briton / Albion, and also to become the Celtic Basques in Spain who were tradional "Q" speaking Celts and not "P" speaking, as the earlier Septs had been, and who were composed of both round skulled and long skulled Celts and pre - Celts. 

146 BC Greece became a Roman Province.

140 BC The Romans also conquered Portugal / Lusitania bringing further pressure on the Celtic Septs there who were also offered the territory of their nearby Celtic neighbours if they would join in and assist the Romans with their campaigns and this particular "switching" ploy was also later used by Titus Didius to reduce the Celtic numbers also, who was to then invite them to his camp to allot similar territories, and once they arrived there they were disarmed and massacred, which only made the Celtic resistance to the Romans even greater. This was shades of what was to occur in Ireland from the late 12th Century AD on under the Scandinavaian Teutonic Anglo - Norman Invasion.

136 AD The Celtiberian fort / dun at Pallantia was besieged by the Romans, this year, who were driven off by the Celts. 

134 BC Publius Cornelius Scipio, the grandson of Scipio Africanus, who was to be appointed the overall Roman commander in Spain found that the 60,000 Roman Military forces there were totally demoralized and without discipline, and after he  retrained them he besieged the most important Celtic region of Numantia once again in the north of Central Spain where there were 8,000 Celtic warriors ready to go up against them. At first he harvested all of the crops surrounding the settlement and then burnt everything else that he did not not require, but he was to find that he was always up against stiff Celtiberian opposition and he was to lose many of his men, and so he decided to attack the settlement. To this end at first he erected 7 forts around the settlement, which were all joined by a ditch and palisade and then he began to starve the Celts out, but during the nights the Celts emerged with their oblong and round concave shields (caetras) and carrying knives, spears and their cleaver like falcatas that could remove any joint with just one blow. Rhetogenes, who was one of the Celtic warriors, rode out to obtain assistance from their kinsmen the Arevaci Septs who nevertheless refused to combine their efforts and assist, so he went onto Lutia were the younger Celtic warriors there agreed to come to their assistance, but Scipio was informed of this and he went to Lutia and cut off the hands of 400 of the young Celtic warriors there. After weeks of starvation Avarus who was the Celtic leader in Numantia sought a negotiated surrender, but Scipio was not interested in negotiations unless they succumbed to a total surrender, and when they did he then chose 50 Celtic warriors for his own and sold the rest of them into slavery and then set fire to the settlement and divided up their territory among the nearby Celts, and thereby created further internal animosity in the future.     

133 BC The end of the ongoing Celtic resistance in Spain for both the Romans and the Celtiberians, as the Romans were now to create Roman Provinces in Spain, part of Gaul, which would bring further pressure on the Celtic Septs for further intermittent Celtic rebellions, but the Roman Empire once again succeeded with its expansion, although there was to be no extensive Roman colonization in Spain itself.

120 BC The Romans had previously overwhelmed the Celtic Septs in Northern Italy, Switzerland, Southern Germany and Austria and were by now exerting increased pressure on the Celtic Septs on the Continent where they created a Province / Provence in Southern Gaul.

102 BC The Teutonic barbarians were on the march and began an assault on Rome itself and were defeated by Marius at Aix.

101 BC This year, the Teutonic Cimbri besieged Rome itself and were also defeated at Vercellae by Marius and they left Italy for Spain where they were to come up against the Celtiberians for the next 2 years until they decided to return to Italy where they united with the other Teutones again who had also received a similar resistance from the Celtic Septs in Northern France.

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