Chapter 2: Europe in the Middle Ages
The Industrial Revolutions
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The Huns and the Western Roman Empire
In the 300s, severe weather patterns on the plains of Central Asia caused a great deal of fauna there to die. The tribes needed to head west now for new hunting opportunities - and they were perfectly happy pushing western inhabitants off their lands. These tribes are known to us today as the Huns. But the Huns weren't the tribes that posed the immediate threat to Rome. It was the tribes the Huns were pushing farther west.
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