It's impossible to say the exact year of the sack of Rome. 390 BC is traditional year, 387 BC is modern estimation. It was a big deal for Romans because it was unusual event that Gauls invaded the city of Rome itself. Other invasions to Roman territory didn't reach the city itself. We have to rely on Roman and Greek written sources about the Celts, because while they are biased there are no other written sources. I was earlier referring to Gallia Cisalpina when I said that power of Gauls was waning in Italy. After Gauls lost in Third Samnite War Rome established itself as the ruling power of Italy and after that they conquered Gallia Cisalpina piece by piece.
And while I have heard about theories that medieval Celts (Saint Brendan and later Madoc) sailed to North America, there is no real hard evidence to support these theories. In any case these claimed expeditions happened many centuries later than what's the game's focus. I would also like to point out that Cú Chulainn means Culann's Hound (He is actually one of my favourite heroes from Irish mythology) and Kukulkan means feathered serpent. Two names have different etymology. Snake and dragon are universal symbols and almost every culture has such symbols, it doesn't mean that traditions are connected.
I asked you to give sources, because what you claimed was in conflict about what I have read about the Roman and Celtic history (both ancient histories and modern academic works) and you asked that these things should be included to game. If you want to name French sources then go ahead, I have read few books in French before, so it's not a problem. Personally I believe that game should be based to actual history and not to unproven theories. However I agree that Gallic tribes in Europa Universalis: Rome fall too early and easily to Romans. I think that the biggest issue is that Roman AI takes conquering the weaker Gallic tribes as their first priority instead of focusing on taking Carthage, Greece and Hispania.
In 500 BC Rome was still a little province, it grow to entire italy only at approx 200BC.
there were lots of fight beetwen roman and celtics tribes, not always at advantage to celtic because they had not discipline as roman pro military, but they were very feared by romans. the battle of allae(the one 387BC) is the most dramatic in roman history but there were a lot more, for example when hannibal traveled spain, claiming help of arvern, volks and allobroges tribes to join his troop they also give severe defeat to roman before being slowly and hardly postponed by romans.
387BC fight and defeat of roman close to allae river, 386 BC rome is sacked except capitol were all the rest of roman were barricaded, they tried to trade their peace with ransom and offered 1000l of gold, Brennus arranged a cheated balance with false weight, roman realise and denunce it, (and that's another huge historical error for the extension of rome) So Brennus added his sword to the balance and reply to him saying "vae victis" which means "misfortune to defeated". source ? Tite Live, roman history, p252-253 (another roman historian but more objective)
about Cuchulainn and Kukulkan :
the proven fail of science is that is based on concrete clues meanwhile in historical books we can found for exemple (sorry it's in french) :
"Les premiers hommes sont venus de l'est, en compagnie de vingt chefs glorieux, portant de longs vêtements flottants et de grandes barbes." source, "Chilam balam from chumayel" (Mayan historical book)
"Les embarcations portaient des êtres à peau blanche, auxquels certaines traditions prêtent une haute taille et des yeux bleus. Ils avaient des vêtements étranges et leur front s'ornait d'emblèmes pareils à des serpents entrelacés. Les naturels qui les virent débarquer reconnurent sur leur visage le symbole du Serpent Sacré qu'ils vénéraient, et surent alors que ces étrangers étaient leurs dieux, descendus du soleil pour les enseigner et les guider." source,Edward Herbert Thompson(American-born archaeologist and diplomat.), "Le Peuple du Serpent, vie et aventures chez les Mayas", 1932 <== ^^.
about Cuchulainn :
Setenta was his name but was renamed Cuchulainn, Cuchulainn means "dog of culan" in reference to his history/legend which begin with his fight with a huge dog, a danish dog logical for nordic people no ? which belonged to the blacksmith nammed Culan. Because of his murder his fate was linked to this date and he dies the day he saw a dog(don't remember the exact story), from irish celtic tales. source , irish tales from "tuatha de danann"
As you would know tales like this one are based on real event because it was the local culture to arrange things, but Cuchulainn was a real lord.
for exemple the well known Arthur and his tales are inspired from a real breton celtic king who invade Britain(Bretagne) in france in approx 700BC.
my other source are far away in bretagne in my father's house, but very serious too.
advice is cheap
also to conclude :
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift" Albert Einstein
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