[blam]

"After Han Wudi defeated the Xiongnu, it broke up into 3 tribes, one went east and became the latter Mongolians."

I know there are many Chinese poems about the green eyes of the Han Emperors. BTW, the Xiongnu were the fiercest fighters of their period.

[pganini]

There were the fiercest fighters in their period and Han almost lost if not for Wudi. He basically emulated their fighting style (light calvary brigades instead of mass infantry), incorporated their horses into the Chinese calvary and crushed them. They won the war with mostly about 40-50 thousand men against XiongNu's over 200,000 (outnumbering by 4-1). After that, part of Xinjiang today belonged to China and the Silk Road is opened to the West.

Yeah, there are traces of the Hun from Xiongnu as well as mongolians/Russians. Basically Kazhakstan, and people around taht region were the XiongNu's.