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The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover, New)
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The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover, New)
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The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no
advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the
so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever
political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing
influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved
west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from
'backward' and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly
misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political
culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive
recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on
important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval
Europe, which they helped create. Their expansion also marked the
beginning of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power by
empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. The rise of the
Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution.
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