The Roman Empire and the Celtic Tribes

Julius caesar was an aspiring politician looking for a great propaganda victory to match the exploits of his rival, pompey. He said that gaul would either become roman or t be overrun by those germanic tribes. The next year, he began attacking the helveti tribe, which i mentioned earlier, which had been expanding into gaul from its homeland in modern day switzerland. And then he focused his efforts in northern gaul, and he finally subdued the tribes there. Estimates, some based on caesar's own accounts, are that hundreds of thousands of celts, perhaps more than a million, were killed as the result of caesar's conquest.