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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe
• Author: Hyun Jin Kim
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9781107009066
• ISBN: 1107009065
• ID: 01260900
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 634 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 230 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. April 2013

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