Spice: Ch.3 Quiz

The Celts were a group of people in [blank_start]Europe[blank_end] known for centering their culture around [blank_start]salt[blank_end]. The Celts were excellent [blank_start]miners[blank_end], and they perfected certain methods of achieving salt, on being the use of [blank_start]copper pickaxes[blank_end] that would not wear down when used on the salt. The Celts were [blank_start]stereotyped[blank_end] by many other cultures, two such being the Greek and the Romans. The Greek dubbed them "Keltoi," meaning "the ones who lived undercover." The Romans called them the "[blank_start]Gaul[blank_end]," which simply means, "[blank_start]salt[blank_end]." The Celts were associated as [blank_start]barbarians[blank_end] with unholy war cries and brutish policies, although many of these accusations were untrue.

In 1846, a man named [blank_start]Johann Georg Ramsauer[blank_end] found the skeletons of Celtic [blank_start]miners[blank_end] in the [blank_start]Halstatt salt mine[blank_end]. He kept searching and eventually found more than [blank_start]1000 graves[blank_end] that gave tons of information on Celtic culture. The graves dated back from [blank_start]700 to 500 BC[blank_end].