What if Attila never is born and the Hunnic Horde is never lead by him? How would that change history? Would the Huns still rampage across Europe or would they be content to the steppes with occasional forays into Eastern Rome?
Huns weren't some kind of Proto-Mongols as imagined by XIXth romanticized historiography.Hunnic Horde
@LSCatilina Agreed. It has always confounded me as to why people seem to believe the Huns suddenly appear from the vast steppe under Attila. They were in Eastern Europe for quite some time before Bleda or Attila and likely were not from the far eastern steppes at all.
Which kind of fun can I have answering these threads if you're pointing right from the beggining what's wrong with some representations?If McEvedy's Penguin Atlas of Medieval History is accurate, from aby 375 to the accession of Attila they occupied a region from central Hungary to the Caspian Sea, and beyond those limits were content with raids rather than conquests.
If we're searching a map, this may be more fitting.
Sorry, the link was broken, re-edited my post above.Could I have the link?
First of all, the core of the ethnic true Huns were 'from the far eastern steppes'. There is no slightest doubt about it among the historians.... the Huns ... were in Eastern Europe for quite some time before Bleda or Attila and likely were not from the far eastern steppes at all.
I am of the opinion that it is not about Attila, it is about the Huns as such.What if Attila never is born and the Hunnic Horde is never lead by him? How would that change history? Would the Huns still rampage across Europe or would they be content to the steppes with occasional forays into Eastern Rome?