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- History By Ekaterina Zhdanova-Redman 1 Although humans have
inhabited the land now known as France for almost 100,000 years,
the country of France didn't begin formation until around
200-100 B.C., when the neighboring Roman Empire began making
raids on what was then called Gaul and the Celtic natives of the
land. As a result of these Gallic Wars, Roman emperor Julius
Caesar conquered the entirety of Gaul for the Roman Empire by 51
B.C. The Celts that lived in Gaul took on Roman customs and even
a form of Latin, the official language of the Romans. The Celts
of Gaul lived under Roman rule until the third century AD. 2 It
was then that the Roman defenses began falling to German
invaders from the west, including Visigoths, Burgundians, and
Franks who crossed the Rhine River and took over land in Gaul.
At the end of Roman rule, a Fra