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Who were the original Teutons?

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Who were the original Teutons?

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Teutons: This tribe’s name has become used as a name for all Germanic tribes (in English, at least). However, it it unclear if they themselves were actually a Germanic tribe. Many historians think they may have been Celtic, not Germanic. (But this may be a moot point, since Celtic and Germanic tribes were closely related, and at that time their languages hadn’t yet developed apart that much.) They had joined the Cibrians tribe, probably after their settlement areas had been rendered uninhabitable by a flood, in attempting to find new land. After marching throughout Europe for years – tens of thousands of people, including women and children -, and defeating several Roman armies, they decided to try to conquer some Roman areas in 102 B.C. The new, politically left-wing, Roman consul Marius had set out with 35,000 soldiers to a recently constructed fort in Aquae Sextiae, to stop the invading barbarians. These troops had been reorganized and restructured, and they’d had a tough drill behi

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