Celtic Empire

== POD ==
In 58 BC the Helvetii planned to migrate westward but Julius Caesar forced them back. However, in this timeline, this is all he is able to do, as when he goes to conquer the remainder of Gaul with the Battle of Alesia the native Celts band together against his invading force, crushing the Roman forces in northern Gaul and a few months later in southern Gaul and ultimately expelling the Romans back to Northern Italy, where the Celts in the area were more favorable to being a Roman tributary/puppet state. The Gauls had enough of Rome trying to rule their homelands "for their protection", and decided it was necessary to begin urbanization in some areas in the southern regions of Gaul (OTL western Sardinia/southern France area) which were increasingly within Rome's cultural and political sphere of influence, to keep Gaul from falling under direct Roman rule. Rapidly, from 58 BC to 2 AD the Gauls in southern Gaul moved into larger and larger towns, which eventually became cities throughout the first century. The Roman alphabet and some words do creep their way into Southern Gaul during this time, but it is used secondarily to traditional Celtic scripts.
== 1 AD - 500 AD ==
In the year 17 AD Ptolemy of Mauretania allied himself with the local Berber tribes, the Numidian Tacfarinas and Garamantes, in a campaign against Roman rule. This movement was inspired by the Gauls heroic unity against Rome a half century earlier. The Mauretanian area soon breaks out in Anti-Roman centimate culminating in the Battle of Tunis in 19 AD, after 2 years of the rebels slowly pushing the Romans and fighting East through Algeria and into Tunis, taking Carthage back (at this point with a shrinking population) and although no treaty is made, Rome never tries to retake Northern Africa. Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of the time, focuses on expanding Rome north into historically Germanic lands throughout the following nearly 2 decades, which he did succeed at until his death in 16 March 37 AD, forgetting about Rome's previous losses.
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