Introduction

The huns have been playing a major role in roman politics for the last 50 years at least. Arriving on the hungarian plain back in the three seventies, they sparked a multigenerational migration of former native tribes into roman territory. New leaders were about to take over the huns and new policies meant new headaches for the romans. They sent envoys down to constantinople, demanding an annual payment of 350 pounds of gold or we will invade your empire. Do you think they bought it?