That defeat of these people occurred at Alesia, prompting their leader Vercingetorix (VUR-sin-JET-or-icks) to surrender to Julius Caesar.
A myth about one group of these people tells of how Helico obtained a dried fig, a grape, oil, and wine, which was so desirable it led his people to invade their southern neighbor. Some of these people frequently attempted to catch an object that was "cast upward" by snakes. According to one source, these people organized their calendar in such a way that night precedes day; this was because they believed they were descendants of (*) Dis Pater. A unified army of these people won the Battle of Gergovia (ger-GOH-vee-uh), but were defeated at another battle using two concentric rings of fortifications called a circumvallation and a contravallation. That defeat of these people occurred at Alesia, prompting their leader Vercingetorix (VUR-sin-JET-or-icks) to surrender to Julius Caesar. For 10 points, name these people who, before the late Roman Republic, occupied most of modern-day Switzerland and France.
A myth about one group of these people tells of how Helico obtained a dried fig, a grape, oil, and wine, which was so desirable it led his people to invade their southern neighbor.
Gauls [prompt on "Druids" before "mercenaries"; accept Helvetians or Helvetii before "mercenaries," prompt after]