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Attila the Hun Part 1: The Sword of Mars
Real Dictators
The Huns and the Roman Empire
To bring the Huns into focus, we must rely on archaeological evidence and a handful of ancient accounts written by outsiders. Literacy in mid-first millennium AD is very limited. More settled, barbarian societies close to the Roman world have runic inscriptions but there's no sign of them producing long, written texts before they start coming inside the Roman world. So what's other about the Huns? Barberians in general, but the Huns in particular, is that they are completely irrational. The physical is totally in control.
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