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were good material. And the Master of the Horse suspected that

they must have come, generations ago, from his native steppes.
For, like his ancestors, they built barrows for their dead, and
their language had many words recognizably the same as his

own. At the court of the king, now established near Vienna, he
was a staunch advocate of a policy of conciliation and alliance

ROCK CARVING OF A MOUNTED WARRIOR FROM VAL CAMONICA
THE ITALIAN ALPS.

that would incorpc the Alpine herdsmen peaceably into the
Celtic confederacy.

One of his chief arguments was the importance of
Amber Road. It was along this route that a ew iron o 1 ’
knives and bracelets and axes and an occasiona swor , r
the Celtic regions from the south. They did not come y

route but directly up the Italian peninsula, across t e p
from the country of the Etruscans in central Italy. It wou