Attila, King Of the Huns

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Attila, King Of Huns
The Huns were a nomadic, multiracial and multilingual group of tribes from the European side of the Urals or from Turkic or Asiatic descent. Their warriors would lead the women who made their homes in skin covered chariots. These chariots were overrun with and whatever the warriors would plunder from villages they sacked. They ate raw meat that they made tough by carrying in pouches between their legs or between the flanks of their horses. The weapons that the Huns used were considered outlandish and unsophisticated for their time. Most of the world considered the Hun to be very much like wild animals in both life-style and appearance. When many villagers heard that the Huns were coming they would abandoned their villages without any resistance. Out of this barbaric past came one of the most terrifying leaders the world had ever known, Attila, King of Huns.
In the year A.D. 395 in the back of a chariot somewhere in the valley of the Danube Attila was born. He developed exceptional horsemanship, which he started learning by riding on the backs of sheep, at a very young age. Attila also became a master of a number of weapons such as the bow, lance, lariat, sword, and whip. These skills and weapons were popular among his people and respected talents for one of noble rank. Attila had a strong sense of pride in his personal strength and a hatred for the weak. To display his strength he would often go on hunting excursions and capture wolves and bears in net then kill them with a small dagger.
Attila had a special relationship and a strong bond with his father, King Mundzuk, but that relationship was ended prematurely when his father died when Attila was a young boy. Attila’s uncle, Rugila, then took ov...

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... found that one of his leaders was starting to question his actions and Attila decided that he should be executed. The leaders beautiful daughter pleaded for Attila spare her father but Attila had him killed. Attila found this girl to be very beautiful and decided to take her as his bride. There was a wedding that, as the story goes, was so grand that tales of the wedding were spread all over the world. At the end of the wedding night Attila took his new wife nuptial chamber and he never came out again. The next day they found him in a pool of blood. It is not certain how he died but some say his new wife avenged her father but others say that he had too much to drink, passed out and choked on the blood he had from a nose bleed. Many have said that Attila was the greatest leader in the world and if h had lived that he might have actually taken over the world.

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