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    Obaminator
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    Can any of the wise men here help me with some insight regarding Atilla the Hun for some research I’m doing.

    More than the typical Google results, that I too found, please.

    Thanks

    #808204
    zahavasdad
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    He was one of the greatest generals in world history. The Huns had one of the largest empires in world history and they traveled by HORSE .

    He was given a bad rap because he was asian.

    #808205
    ronrsr
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    he is portrayed as cruel and heartless, but he was really a hunny.

    #808206
    Toi
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    do libraries still exist?

    #808207
    ItcheSrulik
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    Toi: Yes, but you can’t go into them because they contain treif reading material like history books.

    /sarcasm

    #808208
    Tomche
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    Was he called the Hun because he was such a sweet guy that everyone called hun? Or because he was forerunner of the Hungarians and they were called the Huns back then?

    #808209
    yichusdik
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    If you want to understand atilla’s role in European history, you first need to recognize that the Western Europe his hordes swept through were in transition. During the third through seventh centuries, waves of Eastern tribes were being pushed by demographic, economic, and climatic factors west from the steppes of central Asia into Europe. The Goths, Vandals, and many other groups encountered settled tribes such as the Gauls in areas that had been part of the slowly disintegrating Roman Empire. What set the Huns apart, in the mid fifth century, was their immense numbers and their implacable military tactics. In short, they overwhelmed almost everyone they came in contact with as they moved through Eastern, Central, and finally Western Europe. The only way to stop them was to bring to bear enough force utilizing the Roman style of unified command and action (as they perfected in the organization and use of the legionary system) instead of the tribal approach of each heroic warrior fighting as an individual. The leader of the weakened Roman forces, Aetius, convinced the King of the Visigoths, Theodoric, to unite and confront Atilla’s forces near Chalons in the heartland of what is now France. Their efforts finally stopped the Westward advance of the Huns (Thought Theodoric died at Chalons) , and Atilla’s hordes turned back east, eventually dividing and being defeated after trying to conquer what is now Italy.

    Over the course of his conquest, the lack of logistical organization and supply eventually caught up with the Huns, as they suffered in their Atilla’s last campaigns from disease and starvation. Atilla died less than 2 years after his defeat at Chalons.

    Military historians have speculated that the seeds of modern Western modes of warfare were sown in the alliance that defeated Atilla. It was the first post-legionary campaign in which a smaller number defeated a much larger force because of the superiority of their tactics, weaponry, and organization.

    #808210

    The Vandals successfully conquered much of Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Harlem until gentrification swept in during the end of the last century CE. Their conquest of NY subway cars ended when the MTA found a new paint that repelled them.

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    zahavasdad
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    The word Vandalism comes from the Vandals who sacked Rome “Vandalized” it in 410

    #808212
    metrodriver
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    600 Kilo Bear; I like your contemporary spin on History. I’m sure, in your class no one would fall asleep. Or not snoring loudly.

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