>>3169451
The celts lived beyond the alps too.
>>3169451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisalpine_Gaul
goddamn retard
>>3169451
Geographic variation actually promotes localism. The whole reason why despotic regimes form everywhere else on Eurasia was because they're mostly wide open spaces which lend themselves to rapid conquest by hordes of horsemen and/or light infantry, and in these instances victory always goes to the better organized force.
Celtic culture was simply too fractured to provide that level of organization, which is why the Romans were able to pick them apart through divide and conquer