The Gallic social order in the first times of the Roman domination

Abstract

The contact between the Romans and the tribes of Gaul produced a socio-economic process of polarization and promoted clientelism. The roman order did not produce the replacement of the social elite, which was integrated in its institutions as magistrates in the civitates and as chiefs of the auxiliary units. This social continuity provoked that the leadership of the ancient elite went on. After the failure of the last revolt in the year 70, the repression and the subsequent military reorganization impelled the apparition of new Gallic elite, less powerful than the previous one