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Huns: The Origin
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 21, 2021, 3:11 pm
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Huns: The Origin
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> The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the
Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th century AD.
According to European tradition, they were first reported living
east of the Volga River, in an area that was part of Scythia at
the time; the Huns' arrival is associated with the migration
westward of an Iranian people, the Alans.[1] By 370 AD, the Huns
had arrived on the Volga, and by 430 the Huns had established a
vast, if short-lived, dominion in Europe, conquering the Goths
and many other Germanic peoples living outside of Roman borders,
and causing many others to flee into Roman territory. The Huns,
especially under their King Attila, made frequent and
devastating raids into the Eastern Roman Empire. In 451, the
Huns invaded the Western Roman province of Gaul, where they
fought a combined army of Romans and Visigoths at the Battle of
the Catalaunian Fields, and in 452 they invaded Italy. After
Attila's death in 453, the Huns ceased to be a major threat to
Rome and lost much of their empire following the Battle of Nedao
(454?). Descendants of the Huns, or successors with similar
names, are recorded by neighbouring populations to the south,
east, and west as having occupied parts of Eastern Europe and
Central Asia from about the 4th to 6th centuries. Variants of
the Hun name are recorded in the Caucasus until the early 8th
century.
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> In the 18th century, the French scholar Joseph de Guignes
became the first to propose a link between the Huns and the
Xiongnu people, who were northern neighbours of China in the 3rd
century BC.[2] Since Guignes' time, considerable scholarly
effort has been devoted to investigating such a connection. The
issue remains controversial. Their relationships with other
entities such as the Iranian Huns and the Indian Huna people has
also been disputed.
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> Very little is known about Hunnic culture and very few
archaeological remains have been conclusively associated with
the Huns. They are believed to have used bronze cauldrons and to
have performed artificial cranial deformation. No description
exists of the Hunnic religion of the time of Attila, but
practices such as divination are attested, and the existence of
shamans likely. It is also known that the Huns had a language of
their own, however only three words and personal names attest to
it. Economically, they are known to have practiced a form of
nomadic pastoralism; as their contact with the Roman world grew,
their economy became increasingly tied with Rome through
tribute, raiding, and trade. They do not seem to have had a
unified government when they entered Europe, but rather to have
developed a unified tribal leadership in the course of their
wars with the Romans. The Huns ruled over a variety of peoples
who spoke various languages and some of whom maintained their
own rulers. Their main military technique was mounted archery.
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> The Huns may have stimulated the Great Migration, a
contributing factor in the collapse of the Western Roman
Empire.[3] The memory of the Huns also lived on in various
Christian saints' lives, where the Huns play the roles of
antagonists, as well as in Germanic heroic legend, where the
Huns are variously antagonists or allies to the Germanic main
figures. In Hungary, a legend developed based on medieval
chronicles that the Hungarians, and the Székely ethnic group in
particular, are descended from the Huns. However, mainstream
scholarship dismisses a close connection between the Hungarians
and Huns.[4] Modern culture generally associates the Huns with
extreme cruelty and barbarism.[5]
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Re: Huns: The Origin
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 21, 2021, 4:04 pm
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White Huns: Rise and Decline
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Re: Huns: The Origin
DIR By: acc9
Date: April 6, 2021, 1:48 am
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo_Qubing
Huo Qubing (BC140-117) is apparently the one and only warrior in
the entire history of China who was honored as the Champion Lord
for his exceptional performance as a Commander General of the
cavalry during the reign of Emperor Wu of western Han. His
brilliant fighting skills and tactics rendered him an
outstanding military figure from the early age of seventeen.
Never once defeated, it was Huo's aim to wipe out the Huns at
the time who were troubling the western and northern borders. He
was all ready for another victorious battle if not for his
sudden death at 24, and the lack of any recorded information on
the circumstances of his premature death only adds extra
mysticism to the memory of this great hero.
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