Celtic Invasions

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present day Spain. Next, they went on to conquer the Etruscans, and then Rome. The Celtic chieftain Brennos, who invaded Greece and nearly conquered Delphi, was defeated by the Greeks who crushed his army. Another explanation of the outcome of this battle was the natural disasters involved. There was an earthquake and possible flooding at the time. This defeat initiated the downfall of Celtic civilization in Eastern Europe. By 100 BC, they had been pushed back to the British Isles. There they fought with the Saxons until around 500 AD for the British lowlands. The Saxons gradually took over and the Celts had to move up to the highlands of Scotland and Ireland. (1) That is where they remained until John Balliol gave up the Scottish crown. In 1297, William Wallace and Andrew Murray led a revolt against England due to the “imposition of strict rule on the Scots”.
They won a victory at Sterling Bridge but their advance was stopped at Falkirk in 1298.
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