>Really was closer to a genocide. Yes but that was a pretty ordinary occurrence in the ancient world. I don't think the Celts were that much nicer when they i

>Really was closer to a genocide. Yes but that was a pretty ordinary occurrence in the ancient world. I don't think the Celts were that much nicer when they invaded Greece a couple of hundred years earlier (or Rome/Italy itself prior to that). The Romans supposedly murdered up to half a million people just during the siege of Carthage. When Ceasar was ~12 the rebelling Greek kingdoms/cities basically exterminated almost all the Italians living in Asia Minor (~100k people). The amount of violence violence committed in Gaul seems to be only unperrendented in the sense that most generals weren't really successful enough to be in a position to murder that many people compared to Caesar.