Gaul: Tribes, Trade and the Eight Years That Took It, c. 500 BC–AD 200 | Calm Bedtime History
In late summer of 52 BC, Roman soldiers dug two vast rings of earth around the Gallic stronghold of Alesia, facing both the defenders inside and the army gathering beyond. Six centuries earlier, Greek ships had already begun carrying wine into the river valleys of Gaul; six centuries later, those same landscapes held prosperous Roman cities, vineyards and roads.
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