who was Atilla the Hun?

Question

and also who were the Huns...i looked on wikipedia but its a bit confusing can someone explain it simply. thanks alot =)

please dont copy stuff from wikipedia...could you please put it on your own words! thanx

it aint for homework i was just curious because i heard on the radio this morning that he died of a nosebleed

Answer 1

The Huns were just one of many nomadic tribes that poured off the great plains of Asia towards and across the boundaries of the Roman Empire in the late 4th and 5th centuries AD. Whether they were drawn by thoughts of plunder or were driven out of their ancestral lands no one really knows. Attila was their king/leader and because of his victories and violent ways of dealing with his enemies became a byword for cruelty - whether or nor deserved has been a matter of long debate. The Romans sent emissaries to negotiate with him and to give him gifts to try and buy him off, but they weren't very succesful. He died suddenly and at a young age and the whereabouts of his grave is unknown. naturally, as is often the case in such circumstances, there have been legends that he was buried together with vast amounts of his wealth.

Answer 2

Some links:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/attilathehun/a/attilathehun.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02061b.htm

http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b3atilla_p1dz.htm

http://www.boglewood.com/timeline/attila.html

http://www.royalty.nu/history/empires/Hun.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/attila1.html

It only took me about 30 second to find all of the above sources, all of which clearly explain who Atilla was and who the Huns were.

Basically, Atilla was the king of the Huns. The Huns were Eurasian nomads. Their origins are kind of confusing - I agree. Many scholars agree though that the tribe probably came from Central Asia (specifically Mongolia).

Atilla was a very successful military leader. He invaded the Eastern Roman Empire and pretty much kept everyone on their toes - his first order of business when he became king of the huns (with his brother) was to unite his people and create one of the most feared armies Europe/Asia had ever seen.

It is true that he died of a nosebleed. The story goes that he drank too much on his wedding night and passed out on his back. He got a nosebleed that night and choked on his own blood.

Answer 3

Attila (406 – 453), also known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God, was King or Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. During his rule he was one of the most fearsome of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires' enemies: he invaded the Balkans twice, he marched through Gaul (modern day France) as far as Orleans before being defeated at the Battle of Chalons; and he drove the western emperor Valentinian III from his capital at Ravenna in 452. He reached Constantinople and Rome but refrained from attacking either city.

In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. In contrast, some histories lionize him as a great and noble king, and he plays major roles in three Norse sagas.

Answer 4

In a simple sense Huns were ancient Germans or to the romans Barbarians.. As rome started to fall the huns gained power and were invited into rome but were fooled and not allowed to proceed into the city.. to make a long story short they became more oppressed in refuge camps and basically freaked out... atila led an all out assault and claimed some of rome for himself..

historians accredit one main reason for the fall of rome to Atila

Answer 5

Although he reigned almost 20 years as king of the Huns, the image of Attila in history and in the popular imagination is based upon two aggressive military campaigns in the last two years of his life which threatened to dramatically redirect the development of Western Europe.

Attila and his brother succeeded their uncle as leaders of the Huns in 434, with Attila in the junior role until his brother's death (perhaps at Attila's hand) 12 years later. The Hun kingdom was centered in modern-day Hungary. Attila embarked immediately upon a series of wars extending Hun rule from the Rhine across the north of the Black Sea as far as the Caspian Sea. From that base he soon began a long series of saber-rattling negotiations with the capitals of the Roman Empire at Constantinople in the East and Ravenna in the West.

Finally, Attila forged an alliance with the Franks and Vandals and in Spring 451 unleashed his long-threatened attack into the heart of Western Europe. After pillaging a broad swath of cities in his path, he was near obtaining the surrender of Orleans when the combined Roman and Visigoth armies arrived and forced Attila's retreat to the northeast.

Near Troyes the opposing forces joined battle at Chalons in one of the decisive battles of European history. Though the margin of victory was slim, the Western army prevailed, precipitating Attila's withdrawal back across the Rhine and avoiding a decisive shift in the course of political and economic development in Western Europe.

Attila's adventures in the West had not ended, however. In the following year he launched a devastating campaign into Italy.

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Want to learn more?
Here's a useful book:

Attila, King of the Huns:
The Man and the Myth

Answer 6

Annita the hun?

some pretty woman I used to work with =)

Answer 7

Me