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🗓️ 27 May 2023
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0:00.0 | During the 5th century, one name struck fear into the hearts of almost every European, |
0:04.8 | Attila, leader of the Huns. |
0:07.2 | For a period of almost 20 years, Attila ravaged Europe, conquering various tribes, |
0:11.5 | and causing one of the largest migrations ever to be seen on the continent. |
0:15.0 | Then, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, the conquest of Attila stopped and the Huns were no longer a major power. |
0:21.0 | Learn more about Attila of the Hun and how we change the course of European history on this |
0:25.8 | episode of Everything and Asia as being separate continents, but in reality if you take a cursory look at a map, you can see that it's actually one giant landmass. |
0:52.0 | While places like China and Italy may have been |
0:54.9 | very far apart from each other and had little contact, the lands in the middle |
0:59.1 | never made any distinction between Asia and Europe. This was the realm of the Eurasian Step and the |
1:04.8 | nomadic people who lived there. The Step was a very large swath of land that |
1:09.0 | extended all the way from Northern China to Eastern Europe. One of the nomadic groups from this region in the fourth century |
1:15.2 | were the Hans. Little is known about the early history of the Hans. We know that the group |
1:21.0 | originated somewhere in Central Asia and then began a Western migration towards Europe which lasted the better part of a century. |
1:28.0 | Current theory sold that the Huns were a mix of Mongol, Turkic, and Urgic peoples and that their language was in all likelihood a Turkic language. |
1:37.0 | Around the year 370, the Huns were reported to be living around the Volga River in modern-day Russia, |
1:42.4 | and from there they continued to move west. the |
1:45.0 | Vulga River in modern day Russia, and from there they continued to move west. The Huns, like many nomadic people from Central Asia, |
1:48.0 | had mastered the art of horseback riding |
1:50.0 | and in particular, mounted archery. |
1:52.0 | It was a form of warfare that was almost unknown in Europe. |
1:56.4 | The subject of this episode, Attila, was probably born sometime around 395 to 406, |
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