[John Valentine]

To all: I highly recommend "Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700" by Eric Hildinger as a wonderful introduction to the peoples of the steppes, from the Huns to the Mongols, who are very different peoples, by the way, and not from the same part of the steppes.

The Huns cam from an area around what is now Ukraine, more than 1000 years before the incursions of the Mongols. Many Huns settled eventually in what is now Central Europe, and specifically in Hungary.

[muawiyah]

Right ~ that's when the Huns came to the notice of anybody in the West. They have a Far Eastern history too. I suspect that's only been discovered in recent times. FUR SHUR the Huns were not all that couth and cultured! Wouldn't have expected them to keep historians around.

[Cronos]

The Huns cam from an area around what is now Ukraine, more than 1000 years before the incursions of the Mongols. Many Huns settled eventually in what is now Central Europe, and specifically in Hungary.

Then how come the Huns are spoken of in China at the same time they were invading the Roman Empire and a branch of the huns, called the White huns were invading north-western India?

[canalabamian]

Good book.