03-27-2006, 05:01 PM
Although I have already established myself as somewhat deficient in the Hun knowledge department, I do have one observation.
The Xiong-nu (or Hsiang-nu depending on whose transliteration you're reading) were, I understand, related to the Huns or perhaps were proto-Huns. The expansion of the Han empire is supposed to have displaced them and caused them to move west where they started a kind of billiard ball effect on the various steppe peoples that moved each in turn towards a clash with Rome.
I wonder how different history would be if the Huns hadn't been beaten by the Chinese.
The Xiong-nu (or Hsiang-nu depending on whose transliteration you're reading) were, I understand, related to the Huns or perhaps were proto-Huns. The expansion of the Han empire is supposed to have displaced them and caused them to move west where they started a kind of billiard ball effect on the various steppe peoples that moved each in turn towards a clash with Rome.
I wonder how different history would be if the Huns hadn't been beaten by the Chinese.
[size=75:y4iezjz4]David Sullivan
Lynnwood, WA USA[/size]