Ancient Civilizations in Credo: Europe

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
One of the three main groups of Iron Age Gaul. The Belgae put up fierce resistance to Caesar's legions before their final pacification in 51 BC.

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
The inhabitants of Great Britain during the Iron Age and Roman periods, mainly the descendants of the original post-glacial settlers of Britain.

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A group of peoples of Iron Age Europe.

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
An ancient people of the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania, in what is now north-central and western Romania.

Priests of ancient Celtic Britain, Ireland, and Gaul and probably of all ancient Celtic peoples, known to have existed at least since the 3d cent. BC.

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
One of the major groups of ancient Celts. They were progressively conquered by the Romans between 295 and 51 BC.

In Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A major group of peoples of Iron Age and early Medieval Europe who spoke Germanic languages. The earliest written references to the Germans date to the end of the 2nd century BC, when two tribes from Denmark, the Cimbri and Teutones, migrated southwards to the Rhine and the Danube and threatened the northern frontiers of the Roman empire.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ancient inhabitants of central and N Scotland, of uncertain origin.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ancient Germanic tribe. Along with other Germanic peoples, settled in the valley of the Oder about the 5th cent. B.C.

Campaigns in Gaul led by Julius Caesar in his two terms as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, Transalpine Gaul, and Illyricum (58 B.C.–51 B.C.).

From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
An ancient and poetic name for Britain and (latterly) for England.

Europe's largest stone circle (diameter 412 m/1,350 ft), in Wiltshire, England. This megalithic henge monument is thought to be part of a ritual complex.

Historic city and administrative headquarters of Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, southwest England, 171 km/106 mi west of London; population (2001) 90,200. The Roman town of Aquae Sulis (‘waters of Sul’ - the British goddess of wisdom) was established in the first 20 years after the Roman invasion of AD 43.

Ancient designation for the land S and W of the Rhine, W of the Alps, and N of the Pyrenees.

From Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome
One of the most important territorial acquisitions of the Roman Empire, Germania at one time included the territory east of the Rhine, all the way to the Elbe. Eventually the term referred to the western bank of the Rhine, where two provinces existed: Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, or Lower and Upper Germany.

Line of fortifications built by the Roman emperor Hadrian across northern Britain from the Cumbrian coast on the west to the North Sea on the east.

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia
Period in British history from the two expeditions by Julius Caesar in 55 and 54 BC to the early 5th century AD. Roman relations with Britain began with Caesar's expeditions, but the actual conquest was not begun until AD 43.

Megalithic monument on Salisbury Plain, 3 km/1.9 mi west of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England. The intriguing mysterious prehistoric stone circle known as Stonehenge is one of the world’s oldest and most famous holy sites. While much about Stonehenge remains unknown, it is best understood as the culminating product of the stone-building culture that produced these many monuments across the British Isles.

Burial mound, usually composed of earth but sometimes of stones.

Prehistoric stone monument of the late Neolithic (New Stone Age) or early Bronze Age. A number of explanations have been put forward for the building of megaliths during the Neolithic period in areas including Denmark, Ireland, northeastern Scotland, England, western France, and Spain. These range from economic reasons to expressions of dominance (neo-Marxist) and symbolism.

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia Any of 17 hill figures in England, found particularly in the southern chalk downlands.