Huns: The Origin

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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  5 років тому +348

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  • @ottovrizo5693
    @ottovrizo5693 5 років тому +3962

    "germano-huns"
    Literally the worst nightmares of Rome had a child.

    • @ibrahimbastug2896
      @ibrahimbastug2896 5 років тому +109

      @Il Principe well the archaeological findings suggest that the people who live within and around huns were living like huns. because of that some archaeologists mistakenly identified some germanic burial sites as hunnic burial sites. this suggests that huns were feared or respected or both during that era. about the revolts, only when they see a weakness people tend to break away from their oppressors. that is the reality of all times in history.

    • @khalidalali186
      @khalidalali186 5 років тому +8

      That’s got to be the dumbest comment in the history of UA-cam.

    • @sirlordhenrymortimer6620
      @sirlordhenrymortimer6620 5 років тому +18

      Russians the worst nightmare for the Turks and the Germans

    • @angelmunoz4152
      @angelmunoz4152 5 років тому +11

      @Silviu Florin your expecting alot from a guy who's nation name is Turkey

    • @sirlordhenrymortimer6620
      @sirlordhenrymortimer6620 5 років тому +15

      @@adnan_honest_jihadist5775 because russians despise the Turks and Russia is the only nation that obliterated the Mongols . Mongols could never destroy russians they at most made them subservient but never could conquered it .
      Russia wanted the legacy of the Byzantine empire all by itself and never liked anyone who challenged them that's why they fought the Bulgars

  • @SeleucusNicator
    @SeleucusNicator 5 років тому +587

    I know it's been said a lot, but I really love the art in your recent videos. It's wonderfully detailed and the colors are so vibrant. The sound effects are also fantastic. I had my earphones in when I watched this and it felt like I was suddenly in a swamp/marsh in the middle of the night when I reached the 3:18 mark :D

    • @SpeedDemon_Editzzz
      @SpeedDemon_Editzzz 5 років тому +8

      Same here man
      Headphone buddies

    • @warningwarning8826
      @warningwarning8826 Рік тому +2

      Huns, Turks and Mongols have Scythian origins according to Byzantine records (from the article "The Byzantine Turks"). There is no record of Huns ever being wiped out or disappearing from Eastern Europe.

  •  5 років тому +657

    I hear those Hunic warriors have curved swords. Curved. Swords.

    • @SkYHawK2600
      @SkYHawK2600 5 років тому +72

      @@cosmopolitanbay9508 It was a reference from Skyrim but whatever...

    • @SkYHawK2600
      @SkYHawK2600 5 років тому +58

      @@cosmopolitanbay9508 It wasn't my reference and this guys name is literally "Imperial Dovahkiin" and also who the fuck doesn't know Skyrim.

    • @ELVIS1975T
      @ELVIS1975T 5 років тому +7

      We're the children of Skyrim and we'll fight all our lives. When Sovengard beckons everyone of us dies...

    • @masterspartan981
      @masterspartan981 5 років тому +17

      I bet Hunnic archers aimed for the knee

    • @oguzogursenyurtaltai4652
      @oguzogursenyurtaltai4652 5 років тому +6

      @@cosmopolitanbay9508 the name Hungarians came from ONOGUR means 10 OGURS

  • @mangovest6305
    @mangovest6305 4 роки тому +1443

    Attila's fathers name is Mundjuk which means Pearl in Turkic languages.

    • @mmarmy-d6l
      @mmarmy-d6l 4 роки тому +48

      No its not, its inju/inji

    • @张衡-g3f
      @张衡-g3f 4 роки тому +145

      attila means gold in monglia

    • @cembiten911
      @cembiten911 4 роки тому +309

      Misykat Rahman inji means pearl, name of mother is İnci which is literally same.. munjuck is boncuk in modernTurkish and it was moncuk also literally same ant it means little drop, little ball like inci-incik. So both of these terms used in every Turkish and Turkic dialect in modern and old. It is also same in Uzbek, Kazak, Uygur etc.

    • @cembiten911
      @cembiten911 4 роки тому +253

      张衡 Atil/Itil is the name of Volga river in Turkish and in all Turkic dialect, Atilla means itilli in even modern Turkish meaning from itil river/from river.. there is literally very old Turkoman tribe called as Itilli/Attila.

    • @mangovest6305
      @mangovest6305 4 роки тому +123

      @@mmarmy-d6l It is boncuk in Turkish. Monşaq in Kazakh.

  • @jax2728
    @jax2728 5 років тому +898

    Their exile into the altai mountains seems so similar to the Ergenekon Legend of the Göktürks.

    • @k.a.2253
      @k.a.2253 5 років тому +37

      Great reference

    • @ganizhunis910
      @ganizhunis910 5 років тому +344

      The Huns are the prototurks.

    • @caglaralpdurmus7159
      @caglaralpdurmus7159 5 років тому +110

      I think it is too similar to call it similar.

    • @k.a.2253
      @k.a.2253 5 років тому +17

      @@ganizhunis910 no

    • @yigitcankaradeniz362
      @yigitcankaradeniz362 5 років тому +182

      Delger Khangai that may be true but in those times there isn't a distinction between Turks and Mongols. In all the empires they built, other one is also included.

  • @lindseyfrancesco4
    @lindseyfrancesco4 5 років тому +1290

    I can only imagine how hard life must have been for the Huns, imagine being hungover on horseback all the time

    • @sunofpeter2
      @sunofpeter2 5 років тому +113

      its probably why they beat the piss outta people.

    • @Killzoneguy117
      @Killzoneguy117 5 років тому +112

      "STOP. TALKING. SO. LOUDLY."

    • @rockwiththeuniverse
      @rockwiththeuniverse 5 років тому +30

      I thought he said they didnot drink while driving.

    • @johnduncan5117
      @johnduncan5117 5 років тому +8

      That and constantly losing to Celtic, you're right it's s hard life for your average hun. But still at least they have it better than their wee cousins the mini Huns.

    • @chimidtserentamir3591
      @chimidtserentamir3591 5 років тому +30

      No it doesnt, Drinking and riding horse and wherever you go in grassland that is most fantastic thing in the world.

  • @LucasDimoveo
    @LucasDimoveo 5 років тому +947

    3rd and 4th century politics be like:
    "I'm a Gotho-Gepid with Hunnic characteristics"

    • @ghanvedsingh8946
      @ghanvedsingh8946 5 років тому +12

      Yes Goth were also related to the Hunas

    • @_vinterthorn
      @_vinterthorn 5 років тому +83

      @@ghanvedsingh8946 Related? In which way? The Goths were a Germanic tribe, probably from the south of today's Sweden, of which, after dividing into western and eastern splinter groups, the Ostrogoths sided with the Huns while the Visigoths became Roman foederati.

    • @fanio9413
      @fanio9413 5 років тому +43

      Ghanved Singh Goths were not related to the Huns bro, if anything they were mortal enemies

    • @ghanvedsingh8946
      @ghanvedsingh8946 5 років тому +1

      Do you know that story of Mahabharata it was between cousin brothers only

    • @antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680
      @antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680 5 років тому +4

      If I remember correctly the Gepids were among the Gothic tribes. Idk this isn't directly combating your common but clarification helps

  • @Bigrosty44
    @Bigrosty44 3 роки тому +256

    I loved the description the first Roman generals conveyed to Caesar. " They are thick of body, with cold dark eyes. They do everything on horseback. Their arrows pierce our armor like they are made of straw. They will kill their own who decide to retreat. Their horses have great stamina, like the savages who ride them. This is a threat like no other"

    • @myrnaa1077
      @myrnaa1077 Рік тому +40

      When describing the great Atilla the hun, the romans had this East Asian description;
      "He was indeed a lover of war, yet restrained in action, mighty in counsel, gracious to suppliants and lenient to those who were once received into his protection. Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey; and he had a flat nose and swarthy skin, showing evidence of his origin."
      The Great Atilla thoroughly conquered Germania, but the roman empire was not yet in reach due to early passing. Though the germans were scared of the huns and forced to flee from them (they ended up revering him and putting him in their mythology LMAO), it ended up being that the germanics were forced to fight the easier (in decline) enemy, by dealing the end to western rome once and for all.

    • @jakeg3733
      @jakeg3733 Рік тому +12

      @@myrnaa1077 Ironically (considering he is thought of as the bogeyman) what allowed him to succeed was his restraint and strategic thinking. Brutality will only get you so far, and he knew when to scare the shit out of people and when to win them over by more subtle means

    • @chrisr7597
      @chrisr7597 Рік тому

      Too cool🔥

    • @danielzhang1916
      @danielzhang1916 11 місяців тому +3

      @@myrnaa1077 the Huns were from the area of Mongolia / Northeastern China, the pronunciations of Xiongnu were *hoŋ-nâ in Late Old Chinese and as *hɨoŋ-nɑ, we can definitely see where the name is from

    • @ТөвшөөТөвшөө-п1ф
      @ТөвшөөТөвшөө-п1ф 11 місяців тому +4

      The name of the first king of Hunnu was tumenshanyu. There are many people named tumen in Mongolia. Hunnu is also a Mongolian word. DNA analysis was also done on many graves of Hunnu people from Mongolia. It has been confirmed that 68.8% are similar to Mongolians. Also, Luut city of Hunnu was found in Mongolia. Luut is the Mongolian word for dragon in Mongolian. It has also been confirmed that the appearance, culture, traditions, and lifestyle of the Hunnu people are similar to those of the Mongolian people today.

  • @Powersnufkin
    @Powersnufkin 5 років тому +613

    The huns are mentioned in Old Norse litterature showing theres was contact between the peoples. Edit: The source is a viking poem called Atlakviða. It is about the hunic king Attila. Very interesting read.

    • @mercianthane2503
      @mercianthane2503 3 роки тому +82

      That, or that the norse borrowed tales from their germanic neighbors.

    • @enesfurkan6822
      @enesfurkan6822 3 роки тому +59

      you gotta check old turkic alphabet, somehow its runic , and those runes are lookin alot like norse runes. wonder how did we get those

    • @tsmlaska7761
      @tsmlaska7761 3 роки тому +11

      @@mercianthane2503 Asia Huns: Turkish/Turkic
      Europa Huns: Siberian , cermen, arab,Mongolian

    • @_berat.ugur_3089
      @_berat.ugur_3089 3 роки тому +7

      No Attila is tTurkic word. Attila means : equistrian , from itil. And others

    • @Powersnufkin
      @Powersnufkin 3 роки тому +9

      @@_berat.ugur_3089 yes and Atle is a germanification of the word when the scandinavians had contact with the huns in the merovingian period.

  • @VusalMusayev-s9w
    @VusalMusayev-s9w 5 років тому +841

    Tengri also means "God" or "Heaven" in Mongolian, in Turkish Tanri, in Azeri Tanri as well

    • @VusalMusayev-s9w
      @VusalMusayev-s9w 5 років тому +125

      Tenger is applied to the skies which is blue. If Hungarians apply it to the sea which is also blue. Interesting.

    • @zeflute4586
      @zeflute4586 5 років тому +74

      @@VusalMusayev-s9w You know, when the Huns were in Mongolia, they saw no sea (other than some salty lakes maybe).
      Perhaps when they reached Black/Caspian Sea they just named the sea tenger.
      We Chinese translated Tengri into "长生天", which means "the eternal/immotal sky".

    • @nurithegolden5755
      @nurithegolden5755 5 років тому +46

      Kazakh Tengri

    • @Huyedelomalo
      @Huyedelomalo 5 років тому +49

      @Hungary #1 Hungarian tenger is from the Bulgar language and is related to Kazakh tengiz, Turkish deniz, which means the same: sea.
      The correlation is R-Z: 9 in Turkish is dokuz, in Chuvash (the only surviving Bulgar language) toxur (x=kh), Hungarian ökör means OX, in Turkish it's öküz

    • @Huyedelomalo
      @Huyedelomalo 5 років тому +13

      @@VusalMusayev-s9w no, it's related to kazakh tengiz, turkish den(g)iz, oğur = oğuz (R=Z). Hungarian is not Turkic but borrowed zillion of words from Bulgar and Khazar

  • @arghunpride5704
    @arghunpride5704 5 років тому +410

    Thanks for this masterpiece video.
    Hello from Kazakhstan!

  • @shehansenanayaka3046
    @shehansenanayaka3046 Рік тому +15

    Attila was one of the greatest rulers and commanders at that time. Love from Sri Lanka. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos.

  • @misarabage1359
    @misarabage1359 5 років тому +582

    "Genghis khan's army consisted of the Mongol general and other steppe tribes like naimans...."
    Lmao, this is my tribe, still exists in Kazakhstan, origin is the North East Kazakhstan and some naimans live in the western China too, after the collapse of the mogol empire together with the other steppe tribes formed the kazakh nation
    Just to think my distant ancestors fought in the Mongol army and conquered the world, probably that is why all my relatives look so different, half Asian and half white
    Edit: we also still have the sword related customs and rituals f. E. People swore on the sword and when children are born their family sword is put under their bed to protect an infant from bad energy and honor the spirits of the ancestors

    • @nehcooahnait7827
      @nehcooahnait7827 4 роки тому +98

      Just saying: there is never a straight line between the so-called ‘white’ and ‘Asian’ people... no one was ever pure and everyone constantly moved around...
      today’s narrative of ‘race’ comes from the centuries’ old colonial construction in attempt to subjugate the colonized...
      even the idea of ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’ was completely man-made, putting countries like Russia and Turkey in deep ambiguity...

    • @MrEmretti
      @MrEmretti 4 роки тому +45

      @@nehcooahnait7827 he is white asian because he is mix of Mongol and Turkic cuman ! Cumans were blonde Turkic people.

    • @benitacolmus4571
      @benitacolmus4571 4 роки тому +10

      Sa Ba I think this is wonderful that there is still a tradition not out honoring the newborns but the ancestors all at once per se..so much gets lost..time honored traditions esp those w/such powerful intent should’ve been the ones to ensure were passed on..

    • @Ouzconqueror
      @Ouzconqueror 4 роки тому +13

      Half Asian half white ? do you mean Kypcak Kuman Turks ?? Mongol Army % 85 Turkic cos mongols never ever ancient race..or got population to make ARMYS build empires..Got good Khans and commanders short of time..And turkic tribes followed helped them..Thats it..in the END other Turkic Tribe Mamluks pwned their ASS..

    • @geraldbrefka1145
      @geraldbrefka1145 4 роки тому +2

      My Sarmatians originated in khazastan thousands of years before lol

  • @boyanhristov1280
    @boyanhristov1280 5 років тому +95

    As a Graphic Designer i can say that thi art style is so amasing it made me subbscribe before even watching one third from the video. Respect!

  • @suyashbhagwat5615
    @suyashbhagwat5615 5 років тому +283

    Ah the good old Bleda and Attila, the nostalgia of AoE 2 is too much.

    • @C0wb0yBebop
      @C0wb0yBebop 5 років тому +8

      Suyash Bhagwat great game -

    • @alraziosmany
      @alraziosmany 5 років тому +8

      Same here.... AoE nostalgia... and killing of bleda in the hand of attila

    • @suyashbhagwat5615
      @suyashbhagwat5615 5 років тому +1

      @@alraziosmany It's such a great game man, I grew up with that game.

    • @AcZe1188
      @AcZe1188 5 років тому +5

      I still play AoE2 and there's a really great community in steam

    • @suyashbhagwat5615
      @suyashbhagwat5615 5 років тому +7

      @@AcZe1188 I'm going to buy it, think they're releasing AoE 2 with new graphics and such.

  • @bigbadseed7665
    @bigbadseed7665 4 роки тому +373

    >worship a god of war
    >prey to their weapons
    Huns were real life space marines.

    • @lunchingtangpua2415
      @lunchingtangpua2415 3 роки тому +3

      @@idgafatall1562 like you never lie about your life to make sound better

    • @Ace-id3ky
      @Ace-id3ky 3 роки тому

      Dont you dare compare divine spaca marines with some barbaric huns who tore down Rome itself you fucking idiot.

    • @Sgtassburgler
      @Sgtassburgler 3 роки тому +5

      @@Ace-id3ky Necrons>Chaos>Nids>Eldar>Imperium>Tao Space marines are basically Hun level to be honest.

    • @jdjones4825
      @jdjones4825 3 роки тому +1

      I haven't heard about space marines for decades...👍

    • @commanderkei9537
      @commanderkei9537 3 роки тому +21

      @@idgafatall1562
      >enter argument
      >state all parties are wrong
      >refuses to clarify or explain

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 5 років тому +191

    Those pesky Khergites will just hole up in their last castle to the far East whilst their small armies raid your villages...

    • @mobileslug9603
      @mobileslug9603 5 років тому +52

      Less talking more raiding

    • @keanuortiz3766
      @keanuortiz3766 5 років тому +10

      Is that a warband reference?

    • @mobileslug9603
      @mobileslug9603 5 років тому +37

      @@we1rdfuk It's almost harvesting season

    • @thatonecrytian8997
      @thatonecrytian8997 5 років тому +27

      That’s a nice head you have on your shoulders

    • @zuboy4272
      @zuboy4272 5 років тому +17

      @@mobileslug9603 march 2020 harvesting season

  • @aegontargaryen130
    @aegontargaryen130 5 років тому +333

    Elek and Attila are still very common names in Hungary today

    • @senseypires8817
      @senseypires8817 5 років тому +207

      and in turkey

    • @ceyhunpak5188
      @ceyhunpak5188 4 роки тому +121

      What a suprise. The most commonly used names in Turkey: Atillla, Metehan, Teoman.

    • @klearkhoswashokani1797
      @klearkhoswashokani1797 4 роки тому +77

      this is because modern nationalism re-invented those names

    • @aegontargaryen130
      @aegontargaryen130 4 роки тому +24

      Some of you said that these names are common in Turkey and a few other examples.
      To the question, was it always common in Hungary or just recently became a popular name? Yes, it was always common, and its considered a very old name here. There have been many great and leading figures in Hungary called these names.
      The Huns were a mix of different ethincs groups, part modern Hungarian, part modern Turkish, etc.

    • @aegontargaryen130
      @aegontargaryen130 4 роки тому +21

      @sneksnekitsasnek Well there have been people called Attila since the foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom (1000 AD) and even before that. As I just wrote in my other comment there are historcal figures in Hungary's history called this. Attila as a name got especially popular at around 1800 and then reaching its highest point around 1960-1970 when it was the 6. most common name in Hungary. So as said it was always popular, but it got even more so in recent decades. Its still very common today.
      As for the name Elek it was much more popular back in the time. The further back you go in history the more common it gets. Nowadays its not that common anymore, as more and more parents choose the names which have a western origin and are just made to sound more Hungarian. There is also a smaller town called Elek in Hungary btw.

  • @sirunklydunk8861
    @sirunklydunk8861 5 років тому +372

    "Origins of the Huns"
    I can't wait until this channel covers "The Ethnic Battles of The Hun Video's Comment Section!"

    • @hansbass8119
      @hansbass8119 5 років тому +29

      My popcorn is ready.
      Let the battle commence

    • @ahamedihamiyun5927
      @ahamedihamiyun5927 5 років тому +76

      They where Turkic

    • @derinarslanoglu2709
      @derinarslanoglu2709 5 років тому +21

      @@ahamedihamiyun5927 they were cockic

    • @mdi8164
      @mdi8164 5 років тому +67

      @@ahamedihamiyun5927 and so it begins

    • @isunlloaoll
      @isunlloaoll 5 років тому +31

      @@ahamedihamiyun5927 turkic people are made up of many different races and people.

  • @zulfuferecli4859
    @zulfuferecli4859 3 роки тому +204

    I see there are some discussions in comments regarding the Hunnic language and its connection to Turkic languages. Yes as the video said the empire itself is multiethnic and multilinguistic. However, the ruling family's language was oghur Turkic. Here is a section I am copying from a book about huns (the name of the book is at the end):
    " Turkic etymologies for the names of many of the other Hunnic kings and nobles before and after Attila, e.g. Mundzuk100 (Attila’s father, from Turkic Munčuq = ‘pearl/jewel’), Oktar/Uptar (Attila’s uncle, Öktär = ‘brave/powerful’), Oebarsius (another of Attila’s paternal uncles, Aïbârs = ‘leopard of the moon’), Karaton (Hunnic supreme king before Ruga, Qarâton = ‘blackcloak’), Basik (Hunnic noble of royal blood, early fifth century, Bârsiğ =‘governor’), Kursik (Hunnic noble of royal blood, from either Ku¨ rsiğ, meaning ‘brave or noble’, or Quršiq meaning ‘belt-bearer’).101 All three of Attila’s known sons have probable Turkic names: Ellac, Dengizich, Hernak,
    and Attila’s principal wife, the mother of the first son Ellac, has the Turkic name Herekan, as does another wife named Eskam (Ešqam = ‘companion of the Shaman’).
    It seems highly likely then from the names that we do know, most of
    which seem to be Turkic, that the Hunnic elite was predominantly Turkic speaking. However, in the western half of the empire, where most of their subjects spoke Germanic languages, the Huns may have used both Hunnic (Oghuric Turkic) and Gothic."
    Book - The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe by Hyun Jin Kim

    • @kluts4137
      @kluts4137 2 роки тому +12

      bruh, turks didnt even originate back in the times of Atilla.

    • @II-ug8ji
      @II-ug8ji 2 роки тому

      @@kluts4137 talking about proto turks we didn't exist out of nothing don't talk stupid

    • @patrickhauser588
      @patrickhauser588 2 роки тому +7

      Turks didn´t exist in those times. And Attila itself is a Germanic or Gothic name (Atta= father).

    • @II-ug8ji
      @II-ug8ji 2 роки тому

      @@patrickhauser588 check out the physical features of the attilla and talk later, does it look like you're stupid

    • @patrickhauser588
      @patrickhauser588 2 роки тому

      @eretna beyligi No man you are so stupid, honestly. Stop hearing Turkish Propaganda.
      Attila comes from the Germanic (Gothic) name meaning father.
      Attila became a predominant name in Hungary because when the Huns were beaten by the Romans and the Germanic warriors, they fled to Hungary. Most remained there.
      And in Turkey many were named Attila because many believed Turkish Progpaganda that Attila was an ancestor of Turkish peoples. Alexander is a Greek name for example, but Russians also claim to be the inheritants of the Ancient Greek and Romans. People are believing such rubbish sometimes..it is incredible.
      And of courese in Hungary they say Attila is a Hungarian name ;)
      To make the Propaganda Puzzle perfect

  • @kisher5135
    @kisher5135 5 років тому +371

    Hello to everyone from the Chuvash Republic.

    • @turkhavari
      @turkhavari 4 роки тому +50

      Türkiye'den esenlikler

    • @ra-ge
      @ra-ge 4 роки тому +6

      Always welcome to Danube Bulgaria you who are the people descended from khanasubigi Kotrag.

    • @ra-ge
      @ra-ge 4 роки тому +11

      @Cyprus İs Turkey My friend according to some historians the Bulgars, the founders of Old great Bulgaria, Danube Bulgaria and Vologa Bulgaria and few more little not very known countries spoke oghuric turkic languige. There god was Tangra. When they conqure the slavic people and mix with them, the elite spoke turkic. I'm not gonna go into the Irano-sarmatic or any other version of the bulgars here.

    • @ai-kt3hy
      @ai-kt3hy 4 роки тому +9

      True descendants of Huns, the Chuvashians.

    • @ai-kt3hy
      @ai-kt3hy 4 роки тому +2

      @@kila200 Sarmats are not Iranic though, it is proven.

  • @arzusimsek2827
    @arzusimsek2827 5 років тому +25

    As a turk I can say huns are the great fathers of turks and mongols in turkish history there are three types of huns:Asian huns,Western huns and White huns.Asian huns are the great fathers of mongols and turks because Chinese say göktürks are a decented of huns

  • @rosswebster7877
    @rosswebster7877 5 років тому +166

    Probably what the Roman historian meant by the Huns having "no religion" was that the Romans regarding any foreign beliefs and practices they didn't like as a "supersticio" as opposed to a "true" "religio."

    • @ebuuuu2833
      @ebuuuu2833 5 років тому +14

      I dont think so. Foreigners could not understand the religion of nomads. An example Arabs to called "no religion" for non muslim/Zarathustran/Budhist/Manichaean/Jews/Nasturi christ Turkic peoples.

    • @ericlanglois9194
      @ericlanglois9194 5 років тому +15

      Romans regularly assimilated religious beliefs and practices from other groups, it seems unlikely they would have assumed someone has no religion simply because it's foreign. In fact they seem to have believed that all religions were legit and feared the gods of other religions as much as they would have feared their own gods.

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 5 років тому

      No Romans had a multi god religion

    • @rosswebster7877
      @rosswebster7877 5 років тому +8

      @@ericlanglois9194 True, but in the pre-Christian Roman polytheistic religion, religious tolerance only existed as long as your religion did not threaten the Roman State or the Emperor. I.e. Druidism, Judaism (60s-70s AD) and Christianity (before 320s AD).

    • @richardlinter4111
      @richardlinter4111 5 років тому +11

      By that time (451AD) the Romans were thoroughly Christianized. "No religion" meant pagan or animist.

  • @kevin-jg1pt
    @kevin-jg1pt 4 роки тому +91

    When the Han Dynasty was ready to fight the Xiongnu, they prepared tens of thousands of cavalry and hundreds of thousands of infantry. In winter, they feed millet to the horses to maintain their fighting power, and then launch a general attack in the spring. Nomadic people do not have millet, after all, it was very luxurious to feed horses millet in ancient times.After the defeat, the Huns split into two branches. One surrenders and the other migrates to Central Asia

    • @_berat.ugur_3089
      @_berat.ugur_3089 3 роки тому

      Turks were already in central Asia. The majority of Turks belonged to the xiongnu state, some of them were in Central Asia. we migrated to central asia from the northern forests of siberia.

    • @johndoe123xyz
      @johndoe123xyz 3 роки тому +14

      The ancient Chinese had a governing hierarchy that allowed them to organize such enormous projects such as the building the great wall. That's why they could raise such enormous armies, that's why they could drive the Xiongnu people away. The Europeans did not have that kind of hierarchy, and for the Huns fighting the ancient Chinese then the Europeans was like playing multiplayer first and then switch to single player campaign

    • @lyhthegreat
      @lyhthegreat 2 роки тому

      yeah i read that the normads were at their weakest right after winter as their livestocks and horses will lose weight because there would be no grass for them to graze during then and so the best time to attack them is right after winter.

    • @nathanfrancis9411
      @nathanfrancis9411 Рік тому

      @@johndoe123xyz I mean the Europeans at the time had a pretty complex governing hierarchy in the Roman Empire. The Huns just happened to attack when it was already in its downward spiral and they just helped speed it up. Had Attila invaded during the time of Trajan or Constantine it would’ve been different.

    • @QasqaZhol
      @QasqaZhol 7 місяців тому

      ​@@nathanfrancis9411roman government at that point of history were puppet emperors ruling the countries in the interests of monopolists. That was the main issue of rome since lower class, slaves and middle class were suffering from corrupted rome

  • @okok-ky4in
    @okok-ky4in 5 років тому +187

    basically the eurasian steppes is a bane for empires

    • @JoePro84
      @JoePro84 5 років тому +35

      Hitler and Napoleon agree with this comment.

    • @hevnervals
      @hevnervals 5 років тому +49

      Nomads can mobilize huge armies. Every male is also a soldier.

    • @sciencefliestothemoon2305
      @sciencefliestothemoon2305 5 років тому +12

      The Russians disagree

    • @heavenwatcher100
      @heavenwatcher100 5 років тому +4

      Not a bane anymore, LUL.

    • @douglassantet647
      @douglassantet647 5 років тому

      @president camacho the bottom line is that the Russians unified all the lands from the baltics all the way to the Pacific

  • @kebabmanthekebab-giver9610
    @kebabmanthekebab-giver9610 5 років тому +736

    Atilla was the first gamer in Europe

    • @OmegaTrooper
      @OmegaTrooper 5 років тому +89

      Kebabman The Kebab-giver he ruined Rome’s whole career

    • @sovietpie
      @sovietpie 5 років тому +67

      he had enough Roman oppression of gamers so he came from asia to save us

    • @Righteous1ist
      @Righteous1ist 5 років тому

      @@barsnack7999 Who are Magyars

    • @ggarai3042
      @ggarai3042 5 років тому +7

      @@Righteous1ist Hungarians ! Hun= Hungary

    • @davidbence485
      @davidbence485 5 років тому +34

      @@ggarai3042 Wrong. Hungarians are not huns but magyars.

  • @Darth_Enigma
    @Darth_Enigma 5 років тому +174

    Holy shit I was legit thinking of the Huns yesterday, K&G is psychic confirmed

    • @grendo45
      @grendo45 5 років тому +6

      same for me, just a few days ago i thought "aw man it would be nice if kings and generals had a video abou where the huns came from and what they did"

    • @chiron13
      @chiron13 5 років тому +2

      I thought I was alone before I scrolled down to read the comments !

    • @masteroutlaw100
      @masteroutlaw100 5 років тому +1

      Same, I played Total War Attila for the first time in a while yesterday

    • @willtipton100
      @willtipton100 5 років тому +3

      Tbh i think about the huns every day 😳

    • @ghostof711
      @ghostof711 5 років тому +2

      Our energy is heard and cherished!

  • @aslof1069
    @aslof1069 3 роки тому +230

    The word "HU" in Mongolian means Human, and "Hunnic Empire" meant "Human Empire".
    And when somebody asks what is your origin? We would say "Hunnu".
    It is an ancient Mongolian word for "Human".
    Both "Turks and the Mongols" refer their ancestors to the "Huns" or the "Hunnu".
    The Hunnic people didn't care about race etc bcse it was not important for them or something that troubled them.
    So they would mix with others easily along the campaigns.

    • @ragnarlodbrok1012
      @ragnarlodbrok1012 2 роки тому +34

      😅HUN might be KUN wich means SUN , i think huns not mongols they r ogur turks. Decendants of huns are Chuvash and Kazan tatars.

    • @christopher.saint.christopher
      @christopher.saint.christopher 2 роки тому +1

      @@siyacer What language?

    • @molo5455
      @molo5455 2 роки тому

      @@ragnarlodbrok1012 Incestors of Huns are Mongols, Kazakhs, Kyrgizs and Uyghurs...

    • @curiousman3655
      @curiousman3655 2 роки тому +2

      Beautiful

    • @oghuzkhan6136
      @oghuzkhan6136 2 роки тому +25

      Thats right. Xiongnu and Huns were a mixation of nomadic people, it didnt matter what races it contained

  • @baybarshan2500
    @baybarshan2500 5 років тому +128

    Tengri Biz Menen, Huns would drink Kimiz ( alcoholic beverage from horse milk ). The Huns/Turks believe that a Grey wolf lead them out of the Altay Mountains into the steppes

    • @fatihorkunss
      @fatihorkunss 5 років тому +4

      @UCBbnuCP8POOnKSINsOk7pMQ yea I agree this document..monghols are not turk as genetic...but their lifestyle similar because of geographic and cultural occupation..

    • @MrBsct
      @MrBsct 5 років тому +8

      Turks=Centeral Asians. Turkish people=Anatolians conquered by Turks. Go to Kazhkstan and they look nothing like Turkish people.

    • @muratdenizhankakac1690
      @muratdenizhankakac1690 5 років тому +16

      @@MrBsct No. Turkic: central asians like Özbek, Türkmen ... Turkish: Anatolian Turks. All of them is Türk.

    • @fatihorkunss
      @fatihorkunss 5 років тому +2

      @Arda Gezik yea I readed academical books about origins of turks most of hungarian danish or other historians agree about it

    • @yigithatunoglu3293
      @yigithatunoglu3293 5 років тому

      @@MrBsct bro u r speaking nonsense

  • @Dragons_Armory
    @Dragons_Armory 5 років тому +271

    In the old Chinese pronunciations the word for "Xiong" ~ is pronounced something like "Hun" or "Hunn"
    So yeah, the world "Xiongnu" did pretty much sound like "Hunna"

    • @zoltantakacs5001
      @zoltantakacs5001 5 років тому +7

      And how they spell hungarian?

    • @xqliu9356
      @xqliu9356 5 років тому +37

      I am Chinese and I love history. The first time I knew about the Huns I instinctively thought they were connected to the Xiongnu(匈奴). But I might be wrong.

    • @aurelbekteshi8951
      @aurelbekteshi8951 5 років тому

      @Yung cash register A.K.A Lil Broomstick A nuk ngjan me shume si hunde ajo fjale? Fjala Hunna, them.

    • @reginaldbauer5243
      @reginaldbauer5243 5 років тому +9

      @@zoltantakacs5001 In Chinese, 匈牙利 or Xiōngyálì Your name (Takacs) is Hungarian (Magyar) right? Beszélsz magyarul?

    • @ghanvedsingh8946
      @ghanvedsingh8946 5 років тому +2

      That looks corruption of Zion (xion in Chinese) they must be the Jewish tribes allienced with other non state actors of central asea who most probably came with Alexander the great from various parts of Persian empire and Greece when thrown out of power became state less n roamed around in step lands of central Asia

  • @HUNdAntae
    @HUNdAntae 5 років тому +173

    Also in Hungarian "tenger" means:
    A) sea
    B) vast/huge/immeasurably numerous > tengernyi / tenger-sok

    • @seboh9554
      @seboh9554 5 років тому +17

      It is smilar but origin göktengri mean blue sky

    • @sertankay86
      @sertankay86 5 років тому +12

      In Turkey have very local word; "Tenger tos" which mean turning insight out/my life destroyed/punished from god etc. Old villagers using a different situations.

    • @hammerita
      @hammerita 5 років тому +1

      @Mr Doggo if they are descendant why was feudal anarchy in Hungary in the XI. century?

    • @hammerita
      @hammerita 5 років тому +1

      @Mr Doggo yes, .. and they killed each other

    • @divinemoments5344
      @divinemoments5344 5 років тому +9

      Hunarians most certainly mingled with Huns a lot but they're more related to eastern-european peoples, like Finns (the most), Balts and Slavs.

  • @suphan7047
    @suphan7047 3 роки тому +126

    Atilla's grandfather name was Uldız (Uldin) which in Turkish Yıldız, means Star. It's came from an old Turkish epic. According to an epic, Oghuz Khan who ancestor of nomadic tribes, has 6 children, three of them celestial other three terrestrial.
    Celestial boys names: Gün (Sun), Ay (Moon), Yıldız (Star)
    Terrestrial boys name: Gök (Sky), Dağ (Mount), Deniz (Sea)
    Some founders changes their name and choose one of them for legality.
    For example Genghis name was Temüjin but he change his name and choose Çengiz, it's mean Deniz in Mongolian. Uldız (Uldin) did same thing. Now a question, why they take little brothers name? Because in nomadic culture tent belongs to little boys. So they mean - we are the real heir of Oghuz Khan.

    • @patrickhauser588
      @patrickhauser588 2 роки тому

      Turks didn´t even exist then. Turks began to exist in 550 after Christ.

    • @icyveins-24
      @icyveins-24 Рік тому

      Genghis/Tengiz/Cengiz etc doesn't mean the "sea" in Mongolian. The source of that title is highly debated and one suggestion is that he got that Turkic name and Han/Khan (ruler) to signify he is the ruler of everything, but there is no certainty. Also Oguz Khan epic as you said is an epic and there are many variations of it and none of them are certain, even if he actually existed.
      While there is a historical link with the Huns and Pro-Turks/Turkic tribes, it's not proven that Huns are in fact Turks

    • @merd209
      @merd209 Рік тому +8

      @@icyveins-24 The event is not the fact that the epic is real, but the fact that the Huns are mentioned in the epic. Huns are Turkish, Attilada is Turkish, this is indisputable. culture language war style everything is compatible with turks

    • @icyveins-24
      @icyveins-24 Рік тому +3

      @@merd209 indisputable is a very bold claim for something that is heavily disputed. I'd be happy to check your resources for a concrete evidence. Everything you mention to be "compatible with Turks" is plausible to relate Turks to Huns but it could be that they all were a part of the Hunnic nation along with other tribes and had heavy influence on each other. It could even be that population wise Turks were more dominant and could have had more influence but it's very difficult to pin point the origin. As a similar example, for decades many scholars from Turkey and around the globe had a theory that Turkish and Mongolian were in the same language group but then the theory got debunked and it was accepted that there is a heavy influence over each other due to living in close contact for a long time but not enough structural connection to suggest they form the same language group. Again there would be substantial amount of culture and language similarities with Mongolians but it wouldn't be valid to say Turks = Mongolians.
      Also again it's only a variation of the epic that it's about the Hun leader Mete and Atilla is not a direct descendant of Mete.

    • @hudai7994
      @hudai7994 Рік тому +1

      @@icyveins-24 Anca bu şekilde münasip bi tarafınızdan tarih uydurarak kendinizi avutun

  • @flks7172
    @flks7172 5 років тому +403

    In Turkish we have lı, li, lu, lü suffixes which we when describing a person from a nation from a certain place or a nation. Sometimes even call the nation itself with the same way. Such as Istanbul-Istanbullu or Çin(China) Çinli(Chinese),Yunan(Greek)-Yunanlı(Greek). So Hun-Hunlu must be the same. And it sounds similar with the word xiongnu.

    • @utopian5411
      @utopian5411 5 років тому +27

      In older Chinese dialect xiongnu was pronounced Hunnu

    • @nehcooahnait7827
      @nehcooahnait7827 4 роки тому +1

      Utopian yeah something like that. Different romanization may also spell it like Hsiung-nu... X may also be pronounced as /h/ as well as in ‘México’... Hong Kong would be Hieung-Gang in Cantonese and Xiang-Gang in Standardized Mandarin.

    • @alialahmad4329
      @alialahmad4329 4 роки тому

      Turkish as in turkey or in turkstan

    • @mertcoskun7382
      @mertcoskun7382 4 роки тому +5

      Yunanlı yanlış kullanımdır hocam. Hintli gibi.

    • @VeV-1
      @VeV-1 4 роки тому +10

      @@mertcoskun7382 Ama gene aynı sonuca çıkıyor Yunanistan''lı'' , Hindistan ''lı''. Bende Çanakkale ''li'' yim :D Ama Ordu'lu arkadaşım var lu örneği vermek için yazdım :)

  • @Abhi-yf9uf
    @Abhi-yf9uf 5 років тому +13

    You guys are doing a tremendous service to the history by enlightening people with their past and also making it interesting to understand even for the people who never studied history or considered it as a boring subject. I, himself as a history student do appreciate your efforts and would like to suggest that if you can please add present-day pics of the places where many battles were fought that will be more interesting. If people ever visited those places but were unaware of the history of that place, will be able to relate themselves with that place and cherish their memories and it will attract more people to visit those places.

    • @sorutonamikaze4754
      @sorutonamikaze4754 4 роки тому

      Hanuman is a little bitch & terrorist
      Hanuman was defeated by Vali
      Hanuman got his ass kicked by Indradevta

  • @DrinkingStar
    @DrinkingStar 5 років тому +18

    Good video in tying together a number of elements in Hun origin and history. I suspected the Huns had an Oriental origin when I saw"Xiongnu" translated as "Huns" in several translator apps. Your description was the simplest and clearest concerning the origin of the Huns. I hope you do future episodes with the Magyars and the Goths.

  • @cavc94
    @cavc94 4 роки тому +38

    Fun fact: in the germanic legends that evolved into Nibelungenlied, the Siegfried's widow married Atli who it seems to be Attila. So the intermarriage between germanics and huns was still present in norse mythology.

    • @mahakalabhairava9950
      @mahakalabhairava9950 4 роки тому +2

      When it actually didn't happen in Scandinavia...

    • @12tanuha21
      @12tanuha21 2 роки тому

      west germanic mythology, not norse. Main part of the story is at the Rhine.

    • @Adil_Turysbek_TVRC
      @Adil_Turysbek_TVRC 22 дні тому

      ​​@@12tanuha21
      I believe that norse also had Attila in their legends. Kriemhield though has different name Gudrun I suppose. I wonder if Kriemhild and Gudrun came from Ildico.

  • @oghuzkhan6136
    @oghuzkhan6136 5 років тому +14

    Thank you for your attention and making a video about the Huns. Greatings from Turkey

  • @camille2881
    @camille2881 5 років тому +301

    "Who needs school when you have Kings and Generals as your teacher ... " Attila's speech in 451 before the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
    (True story by the way, I was there.)

    • @heronofalexandria91
      @heronofalexandria91 5 років тому +19

      Kami Attack ahh I remember that day. My steam powered bronze spiders tore across the battle field ending the Huns.

    • @henricussilvanus4332
      @henricussilvanus4332 5 років тому +8

      @@heronofalexandria91 thanks for starting the industrial revolution in the 1st century👍

    • @MrDwarfHammerToFace
      @MrDwarfHammerToFace 5 років тому +1

      Brian Williams is that you?

    • @heronofalexandria91
      @heronofalexandria91 5 років тому +4

      Henricus Silvanus I also discovered the secret to eternal life (don’t tell anybody)

    • @serhatcetin5862
      @serhatcetin5862 5 років тому +2

      @@heronofalexandria91 okay i keep it

  • @AntonsClass
    @AntonsClass 4 роки тому +265

    I really appreciate the deep dive you did on the origins of the Huns, as it relates to the Xiangu tribes of Mongolia. Genetic evidence suggests that they did indeed leave their Asian DNA among certain ethnic groups in Eurasia.

    • @brianticas7671
      @brianticas7671 3 роки тому +18

      Of course. The huns took over part of France and raided on the Roman's 2.

    • @brianticas7671
      @brianticas7671 3 роки тому +28

      The same with Mongols. They took over Russia, China, hungary, and Poland. They were on their way to France and England when they back tracked.

    • @AntonsClass
      @AntonsClass 3 роки тому +9

      @@brianticas7671 the history of humanity is so interesting. People are always migrating.

    • @TheTokkie
      @TheTokkie 3 роки тому +26

      Xiangnu themselves were already mixed due to Indo European migration into Mongolia. Even today Mongols(!) have 9% "European" genes in them. Read this very interesting paper based on CHinese sources and genetic studies of ancient Xiangu

    • @_berat.ugur_3089
      @_berat.ugur_3089 3 роки тому +9

      donkey fitting. The Mongolian word originated around 1200 and has no connection with the xiongnu. The Turks, who migrated from the forests of Northern Siberia to the north of Central Asia and China, established the xiongnu state. Today, the date of Oğuz Kağan's accession to the throne is shown as the foundation year of the Turkish Armed Forces.

  • @enderuslu725
    @enderuslu725 4 роки тому +30

    Altai mountains are the homeland of ancient Gokturks (Turkic tribes), and Metehan, who is the founder of the empire of the Xiongnu, is a name from the Turkish language! European historians never mention the connection between the Xiongnu and Gokturk khanates although both of them were funded by the same nomadic tribes relative to each other and speak very similar dialects. Many Turkish historians today accept the Xiongnu as the Asian Huns.

    • @QasqaZhol
      @QasqaZhol 7 місяців тому +1

      Xiongnu was the homeland of proto-turks. Then those nomadic people started their own Age of Discovery after their split into multiple small Hunnic khanates. Those who were not in favor of the Hunnic split, started to migrate westward and mixed with asian scythians(who had the mongoloid type of look and were named "saq"), then they also started to explore persia, caucasus, Edil river(volga river) and eastern europe. All of their migrations were not just te migration, but was like first exploration expeditions. Similar to how europeans discovered new world, Hunnic nomads discovered Europe, and started their expansion into lesser developed europe. Attila and the other Hunns before him were the conquistadors of nomadic people, who started to subjugate european folks. Because european hunns were the small part of the hunns across the entire eurasian continent

    • @ee_wehealtogether
      @ee_wehealtogether 5 місяців тому +2

      Basically you are right, the early Huns in Asia were likely to be related to Scythians, Turks, Mongols, and Han Chinese. The Scythians provided the nomadic way of life, the Chinese provided organization and technology, and the Mongols and Turks provided most of the people, possibly including the language of the Huns. This is just one of the more reliable theories, the museum and the data are more convincing.

    • @erdoğantatlı
      @erdoğantatlı 3 місяці тому

      @@ee_wehealtogether han çinlileri mi? koreli ve japonlar ile türkler arasında bile bağlantı kurabilirsin ama han çinlilerini nereden bulup bilgi olarak buraya yazdın. kesin olan şey çinlilerle orta asyalı türk kavimlerin asla karışmadığıdır!

    • @ee_wehealtogether
      @ee_wehealtogether 3 місяці тому

      @@erdoğantatlı Orijinal karışık olmayan Türkler Asya'dan geliyordu. Türk kavramı ortaya çıktığında, Ashina Tumen'in Türk Hanlığını kurması muhtemelen MS 6. ila 7. yüzyıllar arasındaydı. O dönemde Türk olarak adlandırılanların, daha önceki Wusun'ların ve az sayıdaki Hunların (M.Ö. 1. yüzyıldan M.Ö. 1. yüzyıla kadar) torunları olma olasılıkları daha yüksekti. Han Hanedanlığı'nın soyundan gelen bir kurt ve Han Çinlilerinin müttefiki olarak Hunları yendi. Ancak aynı göçebe yaşam tarzı, Hunların (Asyalılar) ve Wusun gibi İskitlerin ve muhtemelen diğer küçük kabilelerin, Türkler adı verilen yeni bir rejim altında birleşmelerine olanak tanıdı.
      Bununla birlikte, ilk dönem Hunları aslında ilk Han Çinlileri ile yakından ilişkilidir. Hunlar, Sarı Nehir'in üst kesimlerindeki Hetao bölgesinden kaynaklanırken, Han Çinlileri, Sarı Nehir'in orta ve aşağı kesimlerinden doğmuştur. Farklı üretimlerden dolayı insanların sayısı daha fazladır, çünkü Hunlar göçebeliği İskitlerden öğrenmeyi seçerken, Han Çini diğer insanları entegre ederek çiftçilik ve yerleşimi tercih etmiştir. hayat yerleşik tarıma dayanıyor. Öncelikle sığır ve koyunları yiyecekle evcilleştirmelisiniz. Çevre kötüleştiğinde otlatmaya çıkabilirler.
      İlginç bir örnek vermek gerekirse, Çin tarihinin ilk hanedanı Xia Hanedanlığı olarak adlandırılıyordu. Xia'nın eski telaffuzu büyük, görkemli veya siyah anlamına gelen Gra'ya benziyordu ve Kara da aynı anlama geliyordu.
      Bir diğer ilgi çekici gerçek ise Çin'deki Aşina Türklerinin soyundan gelen pek çok kişinin aile isimlerini SHI olarak değiştirmiş olması ve artık Han Çinlisi olmalarıdır.
      Tarih bir ayrılma ve yeniden birleşme sürecidir. Çin'e gelerek müzeleri bizzat görebilirsiniz. Han Çin'inden ve Xiongnu'dan ortaya çıkarılan birçok kültürel eser vardır. Aşırı milliyetçilik tarihin gerçeklerini kaçırmanıza neden olabilir.

    • @ee_wehealtogether
      @ee_wehealtogether 3 місяці тому +1

      @@erdoğantatlı Xiongnu, Türklerden daha eski bir kavramdır. İlginç olan, SHI soyadını taşıyan birçok Han Çinlisinin Ashina'nın soyundan gelmesidir. Demek istediğim, otlaklarda kalan Xiongnu kabileleri daha sonraki Türklere katıldı, ancak daha sonra Ashina ailesi gibi onlar da Han Hanedanına katıldılar.
      Xiongnu, İskit kültüründen derinden etkilenmişti, ancak Xiongnu, Han Çinlileri gibi Çin'in Sarı Nehir Havzası'ndan geliyordu. İlk Çin hanedanı Xia, gra'ydı, evet Kara'ydı, yani görkemli, büyük ve siyahtı.

  • @aokiaoki4238
    @aokiaoki4238 5 років тому +276

    "There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow again."
    Attila the Hun.

    • @oghuzkhan6136
      @oghuzkhan6136 4 роки тому +10

      @Haroon Abdul Majeed He said that figurative. He meant that he will rain death

    • @astrofrk
      @astrofrk 4 роки тому +9

      Man could he fart!

    • @blurgle9185
      @blurgle9185 4 роки тому

      @@oghuzkhan6136 "He meant that he will rain death"
      Not enough then.
      What a loser.

    • @yumani_
      @yumani_ 4 роки тому

      Said Turcophobic! Attilla was a Hun! Fool

    • @aokiaoki4238
      @aokiaoki4238 4 роки тому +10

      @@yumani_ Huns were not Turkic. This is Panturkism propaganda.

  • @feelsgoodman9751
    @feelsgoodman9751 5 років тому +180

    In Turkey they teach us that the Xiongnu was basically the asiatic huns and atilla etc were european huns
    edit: for some people in the comments thinking that they teach us atilla was turkish. : they dont teach us that atilla was turkish, they teach us that he was one of our ancestors. We learn that Mete Han (modu chanyu) was our first leader, the story of him is identical to Oghuz Khagan which is the semi-mythological leader of Turks,considering the European Huns are xiognu that migrated westwards, then yes Atilla is our ancestor.

    • @affentaktik2810
      @affentaktik2810 5 років тому +81

      feelsgoodman Unfortunately turkey teaches a lot of bullshit about turkic, mongolic, tartar history which is sad cuz its actually really interesting

    • @feelsgoodman9751
      @feelsgoodman9751 5 років тому +59

      @@affentaktik2810 i wouldn't call it bullshit, what they taught us is true to a great extent

    • @bigsmoke1787
      @bigsmoke1787 5 років тому +38

      @@affentaktik2810 I think you're telling us a lot of bullshit too considering you have no degree regarding turkology you with your superficial knowledge don't talk like you have a doctor title sit down take a seat bitch

    • @d0kana520
      @d0kana520 5 років тому +11

      @TheEnforced then tell us Where is attila from?

    • @d0kana520
      @d0kana520 5 років тому +3

      Enlighten us pls

  • @VusalMusayev-s9w
    @VusalMusayev-s9w 5 років тому +92

    the Seljuk Turks were also classified by the Byzantines as 'Huns'.

    • @ElacTeubusht
      @ElacTeubusht 5 років тому +5

      Thank you.. True My freind

    • @OwnTrick
      @OwnTrick 5 років тому +6

      Where did this bullshit came from?
      Havent heard of it anywhere at all, can you give us sources? The byzantine classified everyone having alliance with abbasids as arabs or simply the infidels/anti christ.
      The only people that knew seljuks were orginally turks are arabs and persians whicu themselves recorded their languages, tribes and culture. You can simply see that by searching لغة الترك on google.

    • @OwnTrick
      @OwnTrick 5 років тому +3

      @@balporsugu2.0
      Firstly they were allies with the sassanids against the hephthalites in which they defeated them and divided their state among themselves, the gokturks wanted to trade with the romans via the silk road in which the shah of persia (khosrow) declined and responded with (i control the silk road and your products will be bought my us and then sold for them, not directly). The gokturks were unhappy with that response so for the conclusion wanted alliance with the romans but eventuslly were crushed by the sassanids in the gokturk-persian wars (2 wars to be exact).
      The romans claimed to be allies with them but never responded during the war and left the gokturks vulnerable for defeat againdt the sassanids. Heres the thing, the romans called them saka due to knowledge about scythians (which were not turks anyways) but just titled them that.
      The seljuks were called turks (and only that) not huns or sakas or anything other than turks, arabs and persians called them that because they knew them, the romans claimed them as seljuks or caliphate army duringnthe battle of manzikert. They started calling them seljuk turks later on during seljuks of rum (in anatolia) hope this clears everything out.

    • @d2thezdeezee113
      @d2thezdeezee113 5 років тому +4

      OwnTrick There are arabs that live in turkey but Turks are not Arabs.

    • @porkycrap4195
      @porkycrap4195 5 років тому +5

      LOL. Turks are not Turkic!!! Turks of today are arabs! Old turkic that used to be in Turkey have mostly Disappeared !

  • @turkluk5013
    @turkluk5013 3 роки тому +126

    Huns believed in Tengri, the sky god.

    • @NubiansNapata
      @NubiansNapata 3 роки тому +16

      Because they were from the same region as Mongolians...Huns, Avars and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived into the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape. In order to shed light on the genetic affinity of above groups we have determined Y chromosomal haplogroups and autosomal loci, from 49 individuals, supposed to represent military leaders. Haplogroups from the Hun-age are consistent with Xiongnu ancestry of European Huns. Most of the Avar-age individuals carry East Asian Y haplogroups typical for modern north-eastern Siberian and Mongolian Buryat populations and their autosomal loci indicate mostly unmixed East Asian characteristics.

    • @_B-Butters_
      @_B-Butters_ 3 роки тому +8

      @@altinbardhi it's not true. they believe tengrism

    • @_B-Butters_
      @_B-Butters_ 3 роки тому +6

      @@altinbardhi different race but Turks and Mongols are They lived together for a long time, for example Genghis Khan's army was mostly Turkish Mongols were also a minority in their own empire and yes, after a certain time, there is a mixture. Turks and Mongols in Asia are similar to each other.

    • @suldeesuldee6989
      @suldeesuldee6989 3 роки тому +10

      @@_B-Butters_ Mongols didnt live with turks turks is just neighbor country. After the establishment of the Mongol Empire, the Mongols had a small population and need soldiers and began to occupy neighboring countries to get soldiers. It did not mean that they were all Turks.China Russia and many other countries

    • @_B-Butters_
      @_B-Butters_ 3 роки тому +5

      @@suldeesuldee6989 Turks were nomads and you may have seen Turks with shaved heads, they lived with the Mongols and were influenced by their culture.

  • @tasbykekerey1203
    @tasbykekerey1203 5 років тому +133

    His name is Edil. Came from Edil river. And I am a Kerei(Khereit) Kazakh from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

    • @mustafaziyaakgul3331
      @mustafaziyaakgul3331 5 років тому +2

      No his name is not edil.

    • @Umtb2
      @Umtb2 5 років тому +34

      @@mustafaziyaakgul3331 It's true Attila's name came from Volga River's Turkish
      pronunciation.

    • @mustafaziyaakgul3331
      @mustafaziyaakgul3331 5 років тому +1

      @@Umtb2 no it's not true. Check bulgar rulers lineage. İt's avitohol not Atilla.

    • @Umtb2
      @Umtb2 5 років тому +4

      @@mustafaziyaakgul3331 I will check it. Thank you

    • @tasbykekerey1203
      @tasbykekerey1203 5 років тому +25

      @@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz For those hater comment, I want to say: Congratulations! Your brain successfully fucked by Jews, and a joker called Cohen! LOL..

  • @jl9737
    @jl9737 5 років тому +102

    Loving the attila total war theme music in the background. Dont know why but i like mongol throat singing very much

    • @moryankek2433
      @moryankek2433 5 років тому +1

      U feel the battle field with u feet ahahah damn nice

    • @oghuzkhan6136
      @oghuzkhan6136 5 років тому +24

      Throat songing does not belong only Mongols. Other nomadic tribes such as Huns (today we know them as Turkic people) does throat singing as well

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 5 років тому +1

      Its one of my favorite Total War OSTs

    • @slowdown7x
      @slowdown7x 5 років тому +3

      THat's Turkic though not Mongolian.

    • @yasinnehir4553
      @yasinnehir4553 5 років тому +3

      HUNS are Turks . They are not mongols. You false know

  • @apachethehun
    @apachethehun 5 років тому +6

    In 16 minutes I learned and retained more information about the Huns than books, other videos, and tv episodes about the subject could ever do. I hope you guys become mainstream mainstream one day!

  • @Profanumx
    @Profanumx 4 роки тому +141

    There is an interesting claim about the origin of the name "Atilla" that appears in both Hungarian and Turkish people. Itil river (Russian: River Volga, the region which was the capital of ancient Khazaria) was also pronounced as "Atil". Atil means Atilgan, Aggressive in turkish. It is still used occasionally in Turkish to express impatient people. I can easily see it pronounced as Atilgan firstly, and alter into Atilla with centuries passing by.
    Interestingly as a side note; Kapgan Khan (Qapaghan Khan, Mòchuò in some sources) known as the 2nd Göktürk Kagan, was also named after his personal traits. Kap means "to grab", "to snatch" "to take" "sometimes to steal what belongs to others" "to invade". And Kapgan means "the one who invades."
    Not only that. In the Islamized Ottoman (Some say "Ataman") there was "Yıldırım" Bayezid. Jıldırım or Yıldırım means "Lightning" in Turkish.
    In other words, as in ancient and native American society, it is customary for Turks to give the name of the child born as a "nickname", perhaps long after he or she is born.

    • @neobogard
      @neobogard 2 роки тому +14

      That's true. Atil in old Turkic languages meant to strike or fearless.

    • @tuguldurlkhagvadorj8331
      @tuguldurlkhagvadorj8331 2 роки тому +3

      Volga is Ijil Murun meaning Same River in Mongolia. Atilgan is replica of Mongolian word Adilhan which means Same. I wonder if today’s so called turkish people who look like arabs or french still use the word adilhan or ijilhen to say when two things are same. Turkish Mongolians call the flower the same Tsetseg. But today’s turks are not what turkic was in the days where we shared the same word to call a flower. Turks chose different religion Allah but we Mongolians stayed true Shamanist kept Shamanism alive for 4000 years until even to this day.

    • @Profanumx
      @Profanumx 2 роки тому +14

      ​@@tuguldurlkhagvadorj8331 You sound like the typical Mongolian I've come across online. I don't understand your intention, but it seems like an insult to me that you compare us to Arabs or French. Nothing personal, sorry if i am wrong. But know that if you say this to an ordinary Turk, they will take it as an insult.
      Now I will prove to you that we are not Arabs or French.
      The word you wrote as "ijilhen" is probably the word we use as "itilen" meaning= "pushed". Atilgan = Atılan = Being thrown at, or the one who jumps forward. So being pushed and thrown are essentially similar.
      The word you use as "Tsetseg" is written as "Çiçek" in us. Its pronunciation is "Chichek".
      Doesn't it mean anything to you that the two words you gave examples are in today's Turkiye-Turkish? We were already Ottomans(Ataman) 500 years ago, the westerners gave the name Turk. They called the place we live as Turkia. Because although we have forgotten, we are Turkish. They know better than us for sure. Westerners have a habit of recording history in writing. We didn't have this. We carved some things on stones or somewhere else. But it was never enough.
      Today, some Turks hate you (for fighting against Islam) and some sympathize with you (like me) because your pastoral lifestyle reminds us of our ancestors. Not everyone is "from the city" in Turkey. It certainly has its equivalent in Mongolian. In Turkish, two different groups are defined as Urban and Villagers. (Köylü-Şehirli / Obalı -Şehirli) I think this debate has existed since the beginning of history. Villagers are more dependent on Customs (Töre-Tigir) . Urbanites are more likely to assimilated by foreign cultures.
      There are still many people who live pastoral life, keep livestock and keep horses in Türkiye.
      I don't want to get into a religious debate with you. I just want to explain some things.
      We are not all Muslims. And many of us live by blending Islam with Tengriism in our own way. The name of our ancient god is "Tengri". We were never shamans. Shamans were common people in Asia. The real Turkish follows "Tengri". It has no gender, lives in the sky (In universe). Oghuz kaan deported the shamans to the east, to present-day Mongolia, just as you said.
      This is how the Arabs sold their religion to the Turks. They said that Tengri and Allah are similar. If you read the history a little bit, you will understand that not "in fact" Turks have become Arabs, but that Arabs and Iranians have become Turkish, and even the caliph was a puppet of the Turks. These events took place during the Seljuk period. Selcuk bey was actually a Tengriist. It was the yabgu of the Oghuz confederation. After they became Muslims, they established a great empire, they did not do anything different from what your ancestors wanted to do (red apple-golden apple-the unreachable goal-world domination.) Because in the time of Oguz Kaan (some say that he was the Great Hun Emperor), there was a belief that the Turks dominated the world and this should be experienced again.
      You saw and recognized the remnants of the Seljuks as the Harzemshahs. But I don't know if they give information about Turkish history in general in Mongolia.
      You tell me about common ancestor and history. We Turks know that we are descended from a common ancestor with the Mongols, or at least close enough to be called cousins. Today, when I watch the Mongolian festivals, when I see the wrestlers, it is difficult to distinguish them from those in my own country. When you speak your language slowly, I can understand some sentences.
      First explain why your great khan of half Turkish origin killed the Cuman-Kipchaks. They had a completely different phenotype than you, but your commander, Subutay, also knew that they were genetically close to you. This is something I am particularly curious and sad/mad about.
      Turks and steppe people have never had a single ethnicity. The Turkish image you see in the TV series, I'm sorry, but it existed in Mongolia 2000 years ago. It is true and natural that our phenotype has been influenced by elements such as Greek-Slavic-Iranian-Arab.
      In the work named Cami'üt-tevarih, written by Reşidüddin Fazlullah between 1304 and 1316, dedicated to İlkhanlı Han Olcaytu Han, the author of the book explains the concept of Türk, based on their dispersal over a wide geography, that the Turks were Oghuz called Turkmen; After stating that Kipchak, Kalaç, Kanklı, Karluk and others belonged to them, and that their dialects were close to each other, he also noted that there were differences among all of these Turkish tribes due to the conditions of the places they lived. In addition, he brought the Turks directly from the descendants of the son of Noah, in accordance with the conceptions of the period. The reason for this is that the Oghuzs were very influential in the Ilkhanid country at that time.
      So, can you explain why you look like Chinese? If only you've read the Orkhon inscriptions in Central Asia!

    • @incisaruhan8941
      @incisaruhan8941 Рік тому +1

      Atilgan does not mean aggressive in Turkish; gullible is more apt translation of the word, root the word of which, is the imperative, "ATIL" ; means , jump, go forward!
      No connection with the word aggressive.
      Aggressive in Turkish is " BASKICI", originating from BASKI, means PRESSURE, and, baskici, is the one who pressurizes.

    • @butovazerbaycanbutovazerba4863
      @butovazerbaycanbutovazerba4863 Рік тому +1

      @@tuguldurlkhagvadorj8331 Mongols and Turks were not Shamanists, they were from a religion called Sky Goddess.

  • @Krutamuzyka
    @Krutamuzyka 5 років тому +128

    I'm a recent subscriber, but am a poverty-stricken student so haven't yet felt able to help out on patreon. That said, I'd be immensely grateful if you'd consider producing a video on the Anarchy period in England? It's a fascinating period, with a couple of interesting battles (the Battle of the Standard, and the Battle of Lincoln in particular). I feel it's very little-known, and something that'd really benefit from the Kings and Generals treatment.

    • @Darth_Enigma
      @Darth_Enigma 5 років тому +1

      Now this sounds interesting, first time I'm hearing about it

    • @Krutamuzyka
      @Krutamuzyka 5 років тому +2

      @Grant Willis ha, you can be poverty-stricken and attend a UK university, believe me.

    • @Krutamuzyka
      @Krutamuzyka 5 років тому +3

      @Grant Willis oh no, not really, it's more down to the fairly broken student loan/bursary systems we have here. Woe betide if you if your parents fall into the wrong salary band. Not low enough for grants, not high enough to be able to independently support you. Brexit's not an issue at all.

  • @raptodino1998
    @raptodino1998 5 років тому +395

    Western Europe after the huns - "Why do I feel like this is a warning for something bigger in the next few centuries?"
    *Mongols enter the chat*

    • @ZombolicBand
      @ZombolicBand 5 років тому +21

      *Atleast it cant get any worse* 😂

    • @tsedenishbadrakh3526
      @tsedenishbadrakh3526 5 років тому +2

      yes

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 5 років тому +21

      Gonna be China next lmao

    • @lionelhutz5137
      @lionelhutz5137 4 роки тому +46

      Europeans: *after Mongols leave* "phew, well, at least the worst is behind us"
      *Timurids enter chat*

    • @ramonantoniobennett-ryuuke6301
      @ramonantoniobennett-ryuuke6301 4 роки тому +38

      @@lionelhutz5137 and then the Ottoman Turks entered the chat and boy is it getting crowed.
      Xiong-Nu: 4th century B.C.-2nd century B.C.
      Huns(Xiong-Nu part 2): 370A.D.-453A.D.
      Mongols:1206A.D.-1380A.D.
      Ottoman Turks: 1299A.D.-1923A.D.
      Modern Turkey(Possible revived Ottoman Empire): 2020 A.D.????

  • @SkurtavusGrodolfus
    @SkurtavusGrodolfus 5 років тому +126

    Kings and Generals
    Invicta
    Historia Civilis
    The Holy Trinity of History-channels.

    • @retregratotherversrsentre7727
      @retregratotherversrsentre7727 5 років тому +24

      +Skurtavus Grodolfus *Sad Epimetheus noises*

    • @SkurtavusGrodolfus
      @SkurtavusGrodolfus 5 років тому +6

      @@retregratotherversrsentre7727 Ahhh man Epimetheus is fantastic, totally forgot about him. Poor sod :(

    • @liveforever141
      @liveforever141 5 років тому +21

      do not forget bazbattles :)

    • @franciscomm7675
      @franciscomm7675 5 років тому +3

      @@liveforever141 and history marche, history matters and history time

    • @danieltsiprun8080
      @danieltsiprun8080 5 років тому +12

      You just created a comment thread where people are going to drop thier favorite history channels, and then arhue with other people about other history channels.

  • @adanakebab2525
    @adanakebab2525 4 роки тому +30

    Tengri believers only respect to all presences. Their believes 1 god. It's On the sky.

  • @timroberts4635
    @timroberts4635 5 років тому +7

    I absolutely LOVE this channel... all their videos are not only historically accurate & educational but also extremely entertaining.... Keep up the great work....!!

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  5 років тому +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @timroberts4635
      @timroberts4635 5 років тому

      Almost a million subscribers and they still personally respond to my comment... Thank you & you have a subscriber for life... Super impressed...

  • @barbaricvm0
    @barbaricvm0 5 років тому +23

    I wish you did a video like this on Slavs from their earliest point in history.

  • @ElacTeubusht
    @ElacTeubusht 5 років тому +170

    The Origin of the Huns Turco-Mongol Altaic Tribe. Attila Grand son of the Modu Chanu(Mete Yabgu)

    • @sbernesy3977
      @sbernesy3977 5 років тому +12

      Turco-Mongolo-Hungariano-Bulgarian

    • @ilkeremrekoc2019
      @ilkeremrekoc2019 5 років тому +70

      @@sbernesy3977 And one Turco-Mongolo-Hungariano-Bulgariano-Sino-Japano-Englando-Franko-Braziliano-Egypto-Americano Espresso for me please

    • @vonclausewitz8558
      @vonclausewitz8558 5 років тому +6

      There are 6 centuries between Mete Khan and Attila. Both great leaders and scourge of empires.

    • @sertankay86
      @sertankay86 5 років тому +5

      @@vonclausewitz8558 actualy hes name is Mao-tun(probably Baghadur which mean courage/soldier/hero) we translated hes name Chinese sound and call him Mete.

    • @vonclausewitz8558
      @vonclausewitz8558 5 років тому +1

      Sertan Kay evet biliyorum :) ama son of Modu Khan demiş, değil.
      Edit: grandi görmemişim o zaman problem yok, haklıdır :)

  • @veyselturan577
    @veyselturan577 4 роки тому +146

    After the death of Atilla, his empire collapsed.Part of the Huns returned to Euroasian steppes, another part stayed in Europe , adopted christianity and established a Hungarian kingdom. Its written on the Royal Crown of Hungary: "King Geza- the faithful king of Turks".. Moreover Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (948-952 AD) called Hungarians (Magyars) as Turks and their land as Turkland (Turkiya) in his book 'De Administrando Imperio' and also called Arpad as the 'Great prince of Turks'..

    • @mahakalabhairava9950
      @mahakalabhairava9950 4 роки тому +20

      Hungarian connection is debunked.

    • @mamlukkiptcak1231
      @mamlukkiptcak1231 4 роки тому +7

      ​@liljana zhiti My y-dna is R1a-Z2124, greatgrandfather was from the turk minority in Bulgaria - nationality turkish.

    • @veyselturan577
      @veyselturan577 4 роки тому +17

      @Jonathan The language of the nomads was very simple. Modern day Hungarians and Turks have been separated from each other for about 2000 years. Their languages took different path to develop. Today there are 6 Independant Turkic states. Hungary is an active partisipant in the organization of Turkic Counsel.

    • @puruttyaaa
      @puruttyaaa 4 роки тому +8

      @@mahakalabhairava9950 proven*

    • @mahakalabhairava9950
      @mahakalabhairava9950 4 роки тому +5

      @@puruttyaaa No. It is simply not a Turkic language.

  • @jackyking4971
    @jackyking4971 5 років тому +171

    *Hun* means "person" in Mongolian | *Humuus* = "people" (plural)
    *Hunnu* = first mongolian (and turkic) empire known as Xiongnu
    *Humun* = "human"
    *Huu* = "boy & son"
    *Huuhed* = "child"
    *Huuhen* = "lady & woman"
    *Huch* = "power"

    • @omayah
      @omayah 5 років тому +28

      Jacky King hummus is a delicious Mediterranean dish thats the hummus i know

    • @centralasia186
      @centralasia186 5 років тому +7

      Hun is barbar from chinese language

    • @biliminsrlar5752
      @biliminsrlar5752 4 роки тому +39

      First Hun Emperor was Teoman but he married a Chinese princes which triggered his son Mete Han/Oghuz Khan and he made the 10x system army with archers and then killed his father and stopped the Chiense infulence.

    • @hattusilli2225
      @hattusilli2225 4 роки тому

      In what language

    • @deanlaudon5563
      @deanlaudon5563 4 роки тому +2

      The only Hummus i know belongs in a pita inside my belly.

  • @ramsay9788
    @ramsay9788 5 років тому +32

    Greetings from Turkey Kings and Generals 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 great video as usual!

    • @alpsvn2926
      @alpsvn2926 5 років тому +1

      @@HeyZenci Kısaca hunların orta asya 'dan geldiğini belirtmiş . Türkler ve Moğollar ile bağlantısını ortaya koymuş her ne kadar direkt olarak bahsetmiş olmasa da .

    • @tarikyildirim6120
      @tarikyildirim6120 5 років тому

      @@alpsvn2926 sen onu mu anladın videodan

    • @alpsvn2926
      @alpsvn2926 5 років тому +1

      @@tarikyildirim6120 arkadaşın merak ettiği sorunun Hunlar ve Türkler arasında bir bağlantı kurulmuş mudur sorusu olduğu tahmininde bulunarak kısaca cevapladım ;) . Yoksa geniş bir özete pek çok kişi gibi zamanım yok . Meselemiz birbirimizin açıklarını aramak olmadığında daha ileri seviye de olacağımıza inanıyorum iyi akşamlar .

    • @s-z-l-z
      @s-z-l-z 5 років тому

      @王中孚 lmao

    • @ramsay9788
      @ramsay9788 5 років тому

      We came to west, leave your girls free, don't worry.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 5 років тому +105

    The Mongols are the exce...
    Wait...

    • @hansbass8119
      @hansbass8119 5 років тому +6

      They WERE the mongol (proto mongol, but close nuf)

    • @alexanderthegreat445
      @alexanderthegreat445 5 років тому +10

      Wrong one

    • @ahmetkayrayavuz9527
      @ahmetkayrayavuz9527 5 років тому +8

      Turks are white nation but mongols are yellow .Turks are brekisefal but Mongols are dolikosefal. We have similar mythology and culture

    • @terrificsoprano5025
      @terrificsoprano5025 5 років тому +27

      Not Mongols, mostly Turkic tribes. Xianbei people were Mongol and they destroyed Huns.

    • @yigithatunoglu3293
      @yigithatunoglu3293 5 років тому

      @@terrificsoprano5025 hell yeah

  • @salih5446
    @salih5446 4 роки тому +145

    7:00 isnt this the turcic legend Ergenekon

    • @monokotilbitki2878
      @monokotilbitki2878 4 роки тому +2

      Aynen knk o

    • @DeadManRising36
      @DeadManRising36 4 роки тому

      I think so

    • @baconsans431
      @baconsans431 4 роки тому +3

      Abulghazi Bahadur, khan of the Khanate of Khiva (1643-63), told of the Ergenekon Mongolian creation myth in his work, 17th-century "Shajara-i Turk" (Genealogy of the Turks). So it is Mongolian legend.

    • @blackfrost3581
      @blackfrost3581 4 роки тому +20

      @@focusontheargument genetically? This is a misconception about Turkey turks. Turkey turks are, genetically, mix of central asian turkic people and native anatolians like hittites, greek and armenian genes are lower than people believe so. Even if it wasn't not all turkic people are from turkey you dumbass

    • @miraith_2341
      @miraith_2341 4 роки тому +10

      @@focusontheargument bro even in one generation outer-looks can change a lot

  • @J4NES3
    @J4NES3 5 років тому +49

    Just some interesting thing: Tengri is the god of the big blue sky, in hungary we still use something similar to this word, but not for the sky but for the sea, in hungarian it is "tenger". Btw the sky in hungarian is "ég" or "égbolt"

    • @memooo4587
      @memooo4587 4 роки тому +18

      @@user-rj9wj8vd4s in Turkey we used the term Tanri (Tengri) for God.

    • @merrick6484
      @merrick6484 4 роки тому +2

      Well, key in "Tengri Heaven", and you will find a song related to your ancestry.
      And enjoy it.

    • @emooo784
      @emooo784 4 роки тому +6

      Tengri means god in Turkish also we said it as Tanrı. In Gok Tengri, Gokk means sky. Also write as Khukh/Gok/Gök Tengri. Gok Turks come from this.

    • @jtshek8217
      @jtshek8217 4 роки тому +4

      Yes, and a king of Huns, called Dengisik, it means the sea, from Turkic language.

    • @davaadalaiayush3130
      @davaadalaiayush3130 4 роки тому +2

      Tengri is meaning sky. We called Tenger (ТЭНГЭР).

  • @hormpir3648
    @hormpir3648 5 років тому +30

    I love the Total War: Attila music in the background

  • @Asterlibra
    @Asterlibra 4 роки тому +17

    I'm so impressed by your art style and presentation! Thank you very much!

  • @aGr3atD4y
    @aGr3atD4y Рік тому +2

    Its incredible how much you can learn about history from a 15 min long video!

  • @alansalas1880
    @alansalas1880 5 років тому +54

    It is just me or the video kinda ended abruptly?
    Nice video anyways.

  • @scourgeofgodattila579
    @scourgeofgodattila579 4 роки тому +26

    In the Byzantine sources, the Seljuks were called as hun when they first came and seljuks are turkic

    • @scourgeofgodattila579
      @scourgeofgodattila579 4 роки тому +1

      @Noah Pritchett / The handsome apologist no hun were turkic

    • @Lipton3373
      @Lipton3373 4 роки тому +1

      @@scourgeofgodattila579 That has zero meaning

    • @yumani_
      @yumani_ 4 роки тому

      @The Celtic Apologist thats dumb

    • @barca8341
      @barca8341 3 роки тому

      @@Lipton3373 It does but you just don't want to see it.

  • @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143
    @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143 5 років тому +85

    can you make please an episode about Matilda of Canossa, and one about ancient Ligurians? there are two intresting stories that often people don't know. All your videos are amazing! Thank you so much!

    • @Dorya9
      @Dorya9 5 років тому +1

      Quattro salti in padella? Ma ora vado a comprare delle patate saporite.

    • @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143
      @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143 5 років тому +6

      @bigbrain457 Matilda of Canossa was the last member of the noble house of Canossa of Tuscany, she was (not officialy but on fact) the queen of north Italy at the beginning of the XI century. Her life it's intresting because it's similar to the story of Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones (and for coincidence she also phisically resembled her for the informations that we have today), her life when she was a child was happy and wealthy, this end when her father is killed in a cospiracy, and all her brothers die for various reasons (for the most part ilness); she was obliged to marry a man she didn't love. After the death of this she become with a diplomacy alliance with the pope the vice-queen of Italy and in exchange she promised tto defend him from the political and militar intrusion of the emperor of the holy roman empire. She have defeated two emperors in battle for twenty years commanding personally the army, and one time humbled the emperor making him kneel for three days in front of her castle.
      Ancient Ligurians were the most ancient italic population, they lived in the actual region of Liguria and in southern France and south Piedmont. They origins are mysterious because they didn't know writing. They story it's intresting because even if they were an italic population they were similar to the celts (physically and culturally) for they influence in north Italy, on fact on 700 B.C circa the Celts arrived on this region and teached the lavuration of metals to ligurians, on fact the helms of the ligurian warriors are similars to the celts countreparts. Ligurians fighted also like mercenaries for other nations, in particular for Carthagine: the royal guards of Annibal it was composed by ligurians, moreover during punic wars ligurians tribes were allied of him. They were the last italic population conquered by Romans. Excuse me for bad writing, english it's not my mother tongue and i'm dysgrapic

    • @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143
      @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143 5 років тому

      @@Dorya9 mi raccomando invita Buster Keaton sennò si offende! ;)

    • @agrippina1411
      @agrippina1411 5 років тому +2

      @@quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143 This is an amazing part of history that I didn't know of! Thanks for sharing. Hope Kings & Generals will make a video on her life in the future.

    • @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143
      @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143 5 років тому

      @@agrippina1411 thanks to you! it's awesome sharing real little known stories of own countries with people from all aroung the world! ;)

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 4 роки тому +4

    Impressively informative video. I just learned aspects of the Huns I didn't know about at all. I loved it. Whoever made this video a reality. Great job. You really impressed me in this video.

  • @BB-vf8wl
    @BB-vf8wl 5 років тому +66

    Today still there are so many people in Hungary and Turkey who have Attila's name.

    • @zuzudernegger9721
      @zuzudernegger9721 5 років тому +11

      Yet none of them are related to Attila or the Huns!

    • @davidbence485
      @davidbence485 5 років тому +18

      In Hungary the name was introduced in the 19th century by orientalist fashions. In Turkey the name was introduced in the 1930's by the turkish reform. So originally neither of these countries had that name.

    • @kemalsurmeli7722
      @kemalsurmeli7722 5 років тому +15

      @@davidbence485 wrong atilla is a name used in turkey for thausends of years the huns where turks

    • @zuzudernegger9721
      @zuzudernegger9721 5 років тому

      @@davidbence485 Attila the Hun was of the Dulo clan. The Dulo clans later created Magna Bulgaria, then Danube Bulgaria, then Volga Bulgaria, some say that also the Chuvash and the Balkarians are heirs but I don't know if they are really descended of the Dulo clan, a tribe led by a member of the Dulo clan Alcek also migrated and settled in Southern Italy.

    • @flak8855
      @flak8855 5 років тому +2

      @@kemalsurmeli7722
      Turkey is barely 100 years into existence, even ottoman empire started around 500 years ago.

  • @AngryHistorian87
    @AngryHistorian87 5 років тому +6

    Very cool and informative video. I was especially fascinated by the Huns' religious beliefs.

  • @historicaladventurevideos
    @historicaladventurevideos 5 років тому +4

    Yes! I just got home and I was desperate to watch some good history right now. You just uploaded a video :)

  • @derusername7218
    @derusername7218 3 роки тому +1

    thx so much for working so hard and for publishing this for free

  • @nurithegolden5755
    @nurithegolden5755 5 років тому +4

    YES I ASKED FOR THIS SINCE 2017. That’s how long i’ve been watching your awesome channel 😂. THANK YOU! I’m from Kazakhstan btw (:

    • @khanasparukh2132
      @khanasparukh2132 5 років тому +1

      Hello, you are another of our cousins :)

    • @nurithegolden5755
      @nurithegolden5755 5 років тому

      @@khanasparukh2132 Where are you from?

    • @khanasparukh2132
      @khanasparukh2132 5 років тому

      @@nurithegolden5755 Bulgaria

    • @nurithegolden5755
      @nurithegolden5755 5 років тому +3

      @@khanasparukh2132 Attila came from Euroasia (Kazakhstan) and his son made Hun Bulgari which connects us :)

    • @khanasparukh2132
      @khanasparukh2132 5 років тому +1

      @@nurithegolden5755 true, I send you my regards

  • @carloswater7
    @carloswater7 5 років тому +27

    Long time ago my teacher said, that the Hans originated from Mongolia. Later I was taught they originated from China. Recently I heard probably they originated probably from Kazakhstan.
    So it is unclear where they originated from. Man, sucks to have lost chapters in history.

    • @kbodo65
      @kbodo65 5 років тому +3

      The funny thing is, all was right!
      The Hun population originally find in Carpathian basin, (60% of modern Hungarian man population) genetically match with a 40 thousands years old archaeological evidence. Than smaller or bigger groups of people left the Carpathian basin goes around far away, until China, their writing influenced the Sumerians as well. Some of them came back to the ancient home in central Europe (because the homeland was attacked) but possibly a lot left all over Eurasia.
      We (huns) are findable behind every doors 😉

    • @NikeBG
      @NikeBG 5 років тому +2

      As the video said, the Huns (and most other tribal confederations, especially in the steppes) weren't one monolithic, never-changing group of people that could have only one point of origin. From the Xiongnu to the European Huns, they had different stages in their history and along their journey west, they met and mixed with various people. Thus, there were gradual changes, hence why the video even implies the European Huns might have simply picked the Xiongnu's name without being directly related to them (like the European Avars later did, without being related to the original Avars).
      Likewise, a similar thing can be said about all Eurasian nations - f.e. the Brits - even if we ignore the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, the earlier Celts also didn't originate there, but came from the mainland. Andd before that they came from the Proto-Indo-Europeans (from the Pontic steppes, incidentally or not). And the PIE people came from somewhere else - a path which could be traced back to the Middle East, then North Africa, then Sub-Saharan Eastern Africa, from where eventually all of us originated, it seems. Unless we go even further back the tree of biological evolution, of course.

    • @RandomGuy-df1oy
      @RandomGuy-df1oy 4 роки тому +1

      @@NikeBG I dont think they wanted to take the name "Xiongnu". It was also a tribal confederation. It doesn't give them legitimacy. Its obvious that the Huns come from the Western Xiongnu as the White Huns.

    • @ghanvedsingh8946
      @ghanvedsingh8946 4 роки тому +2

      Yes you are right here in India white Huns invaded our nation and the incident is recorded in the corrupted form which is called Mahabharata it means they were exiled relatives of us only and we know that mankind s evolution started in Africa and we all human beings are migrated from there due to differences in their behaviour and food shortage at a place had to go through fight for survival hence migrated to different places on earth and beliefs became relegions which is the main reason of clashes in this world and still going on in the form of trade practices and investment proposals a new form which is China's BRI also a new type of colonialism

    • @muhammadmunim4530
      @muhammadmunim4530 4 роки тому

      @@ghanvedsingh8946 you are wrong mahabharat was in way early wheras huns are in the time of gupta empire they attacked india from central asia and control most of the north west right now pakistan and some north of india

  • @LM-pd6wj
    @LM-pd6wj 5 років тому +7

    the teory behind this video is the teory of Hyun Jin Kim! Excelent video!

  • @altinbey5831
    @altinbey5831 4 роки тому +258

    Butun Turk dunyosiga salomlar, biz bir ajdod dan kelganmiz

    • @tasbykekerey1203
      @tasbykekerey1203 4 роки тому +31

      Altin Bey Qazaqstannan Turk bauyrlarğa Salem 🤘🏼🦅🇰🇿♥️🇹🇷🐺🤘🏼

    • @altinbey5831
      @altinbey5831 4 роки тому +14

      @Donat Rahmat, ammo mani profil rasmi Turkiston bayrog'i :)

    • @kubat552
      @kubat552 4 роки тому +3

      ​@@altinbey5831 Basmachi movement flag

    • @rezaa2173
      @rezaa2173 4 роки тому +4

      62🤙🏻🇹🇷🤣aleyküm selam

    • @altinbey5831
      @altinbey5831 4 роки тому

      @@kubat552 you already know brother ;)

  • @deeipomar2366
    @deeipomar2366 5 років тому +83

    So, in a way the mighty Roman empire fell because of a cow 🤔

    • @rubendebien5557
      @rubendebien5557 5 років тому +32

      you clearly haven't been paying attention... it might also have been a deer

    • @RomanHistoryFan476AD
      @RomanHistoryFan476AD 5 років тому +8

      By the time the Huns where at Rome's doors, The Empire was already broken and a mere shadow of it's former power now, having to ally up to create even a standard size army to fight, having to pay people to keep them from raiding rather than though sheer fear of there power, the two Roman Empire's of the 5 century AD where just a fraction of Rome's old power without the Roman fighting spirit. to be honest since the smash up of 376 ad by the Goths the Romans never where same even when they did get back on there feet for a little while they where never the same again. no longer able to absorb crushing losses and keep rolling like back in the days of Scipio and Caesar or Trajan.
      The eastern Empire did regain some of that fight and spirit back near the end of the 5 century and in the sixth Century made a good attempt of regaining past glory and retook Italy up to Rome for a while and North Africa.

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 5 років тому +1

      Mrs. O'Leary strikes again!

    • @alvintheng8501
      @alvintheng8501 5 років тому

      Roman Empire grew too big, and do not have the armies to support it. In the end, they resort to axillary troops from the Roman border and bride their foe with gold and goods. Attila attack the Roman came much later as Roman have been bribing the Huns for almost 3 decades, believing the nomad will collapse itself because of infighting, as the case for Alan, Germanic tribes and the goths.

    • @spyridon3089
      @spyridon3089 5 років тому

      @@RomanHistoryFan476AD the taking back of italy, North-africa Weakend the empire and Made the Loss of the Balkans to the slavs possible.....

  • @MisterTipp
    @MisterTipp 5 років тому +6

    What a great explanation of how the Xiongnu "became" the huns. It's reminiscent of how the Germanic people who migrated into the Roman Empire.

  • @nodosa994
    @nodosa994 5 років тому +54

    ahh damn, now i have to play Atilla Total War now.

    • @tunnar79
      @tunnar79 5 років тому

      @@lewisw3436 That's a bitch of a task,unless you play a faction from the opposite side of the map.

    • @d0kana520
      @d0kana520 5 років тому

      "Enemy general is dead"
      "This is your day"

    • @hellcat7028
      @hellcat7028 5 років тому

      @@d0kana520 😅😅

    • @og4413
      @og4413 5 років тому

      Everybody who plays total war Attila hates the shit out of the huns

  • @joseacosta8742
    @joseacosta8742 3 роки тому +11

    Can't wait for your Schythians episode.

  • @yinongxu9355
    @yinongxu9355 5 років тому +8

    It is interesting that many of these can be found in a Chinese junior high school's textbook. Since the war between the Han Empire and the Xiongnu is taught and Huns and the kingdom of Hungary were also introduced by the textbook.

    • @yinongxu9355
      @yinongxu9355 5 років тому +2

      Also, from our knowledge, the Huns do drink milk: the horse milk in the form of kumis. And they didn't wear wool cloths, instead, fur was the major clothes of choice, the wool usually used as tent's insulation material. They did not have wide access to iron tools and relies on trade with Han Empires, which their hit and run tactics were not enough to cover their inferior weapons and armours.

    • @huseyinylmaz3030
      @huseyinylmaz3030 5 років тому

      What your books say about us Turks and Mongols ?

    • @JYTheAviator
      @JYTheAviator 5 років тому

      @@huseyinylmaz3030 idk books in turkey said u guys built the pyramid

    • @davidbence485
      @davidbence485 5 років тому

      Kingdom of Hungary was not a Hun kingdom.

    • @davidbence485
      @davidbence485 5 років тому

      @Alex Y Oh, my bad... 😅 I almost forgot, celts and finns were also turks.

  • @TheMuslimBatman
    @TheMuslimBatman 5 років тому +5

    I fucking love this channel, I will always support your work ❤️

  • @mobiggcro
    @mobiggcro 5 років тому +8

    Very interesting , Learned allot and the art was beautiful !

    • @rostislavsvoboda7013
      @rostislavsvoboda7013 5 років тому

      The geography is awful. The map is completely missing Carpathian Mountains.

  • @yanistefanov7831
    @yanistefanov7831 3 роки тому +18

    Bulgars have amazing ancestry, sadly politics nowadays fail to show it and spread it. Thankfully there's people like you! Love from Bulgaria. And love to all the ancestors of the steppe people. We can only be proud!

    • @NubiansNapata
      @NubiansNapata 3 роки тому +5

      Huns were east asians

    • @yanistefanov7831
      @yanistefanov7831 3 роки тому +5

      @@NubiansNapata I would refer you to the Nominalia of the Bulgarian khan's. I am well aware Bulgarians now are not what huns are since we are so mixed now we were even then that's precisely the meaning of the word bulgar. they spoke Mixed. It refers to the mixture of tribes in the steppe but we also had thracians and slavs in Bulgaria, not to mention it's 2021 so nobody is 100% anything. Look at Hungary for instance they are steppe people too.

    • @mustafa6363.
      @mustafa6363. 3 роки тому +5

      @@yanistefanov7831 huns made a group out of kipchak-oghuz turks and old bulgarians were turks too but today bulgariaans are more slavic

    • @Toktobay987
      @Toktobay987 3 роки тому +8

      @@yanistefanov7831 proto bulgarians are turkic

    • @yanistefanov7831
      @yanistefanov7831 3 роки тому +1

      @@Toktobay987 The Huns and Bulgars spoke closely related languages different from others “barbarian” languages. The relations between the language of Bulgars and Huns were studied by Harvard professor Pritsak in his notable work "The Hunnic Language of the Attila Clan" (1982).He termed the language of Bulgars as Hunno-Bulgarian. Pritsak analyzed the 33 survived Hunnic personal names and concluded that the language of the Bulgars was Hunnic language

  • @BrbZrk_2
    @BrbZrk_2 5 років тому +17

    The Huns were Turkic. How you call them doesnt matter. THE GREAT Nomads in Central Asia. Turks Huns, part Mongols, later Bulgars, And dozens of Turkic countries.

  • @VusalMusayev-s9w
    @VusalMusayev-s9w 5 років тому +6

    read turkish legends and pre islamic worship in tengry. Moreover legend of ergenekon is the legend about huns.

  • @sathyasayesh9914
    @sathyasayesh9914 5 років тому +4

    @Kings and Generals pls do a video about the Hun invasions into India as well. The Guptas had been keeping them on the bay until the Guptas collapsed and the Huns swept India. It took a coalition of Kings to finally drive them out.

  • @charlesstuart7290
    @charlesstuart7290 4 роки тому +3

    Informative - years ago in school it was inferred scattered and disappeared after
    Attila's demise.

  • @altinksart
    @altinksart 5 років тому +59

    Huns turks nomad from Kazakstan or krigistan. Hanu in han dynasty. 320 ad

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 5 років тому

      they were partly Turkic but not in general

    • @ani2969
      @ani2969 5 років тому +1

      @@SantomPh today's europe hun is hungry but hungry don't accept this

    • @altinksart
      @altinksart 5 років тому

      Ja en iran alans en ostrogods. Oll wos in huns army. En meny mår

    • @altinksart
      @altinksart 5 років тому

      Iven rajput ar konekdet to nomad pippol.

    • @mjs9026
      @mjs9026 5 років тому

      Türko-Farsi Stoner brother ,phisical features can be effected by living in a different geoghraphy too long and Turcic origin is made of nomad people live in different parts of central asia.Some lived in far north central asia , some lived in north china,some lived beside khazar sea ...

  • @hater9117
    @hater9117 5 років тому +21

    god I wish we knew more about the scythians

    • @ghanvedsingh8946
      @ghanvedsingh8946 5 років тому

      They were the most probably decendents of hettites

    • @archer1949
      @archer1949 5 років тому +2

      Hater 9/11
      A Persian/Mede tribe.

    • @OwnTrick
      @OwnTrick 5 років тому +6

      @@aydnmesuttorun8397
      They were classified as saka which are eastern iranian tribe with similar language to other iranian tribes. They are not unknown because we literally have records of them and information with evidence in iran and even abroad by many scholars, hell even the greeks recorded them with their culture, language and ethnicity. Even arabs have information about them.

    • @OwnTrick
      @OwnTrick 5 років тому

      @@aydnmesuttorun8397
      Well, scholars argue about scythians and other eastern iranians having different culture than the mainland but the language is mostly farsi influenced just like kurdish, tajik and pashto are understandable to a common farsi speaker. Dont get me wrong friend, there are words and meanings that are different in these languages than farsi but mainly understandable for eachother, for example cyrus the great wrote letters to the scythians proposing tumyris in persian, the scythians were nomadic and could understand their own language only, thats how the greeks communicated with them during alexander's era and recorded them as saka tribe.

    • @OwnTrick
      @OwnTrick 5 років тому +1

      @@mustafaziyaakgul3331
      Can you understand turkic kurgan yourself? As in can you read it? Ofcourse not, thats archeologists job. The only thing turkish want is to be legitimate as of now, thats why you see turks trying to claim ancient civilisation such as the huns, scythians and hettites, to claim roots in anatolia and east asian land as originally theirs. I mean, nobody can accept having raped mothers and blood thirsty fathers right?

  • @namechangesallowedeveryd-hm7ix
    @namechangesallowedeveryd-hm7ix 5 років тому +26

    The romans: the huns cannot defeat us!
    Atilla: *Im gonna do what's called a pro gamer move*

    • @TheDirtysouthfan
      @TheDirtysouthfan 5 років тому

      The Huns did a fair amount of damage, but even Attila was defeated a few times by the Romans. The Huns entered Northern Italy, but then left after a talk with the Pope. They never even got near Rome, unlike the Visigoths and Vandals who had previously ransacked through the empire who both sacked Rome and established long lived kingdoms on Roman territory that would exist for a few more centuries.

    • @Potatoman1578
      @Potatoman1578 5 років тому

      @@TheDirtysouthfan those same group of people fled from their homeland because of huns

  • @mokkaveli
    @mokkaveli 3 роки тому +1

    Great video mate. Absolutely filled with information that is useful for research

  • @yllbardh
    @yllbardh 5 років тому +12

    so that's why they say that *when a butterfly flaps with wings in Beijing it probably rains in Paris*
    according to _trickle down effect_ one could say that chin expansion led to fall of roman empire

  • @MicaelSG23
    @MicaelSG23 5 років тому +8

    "germano-huns". That's the most terrifying group of ancient warlords I could think of.

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse 5 років тому +8

    Archaeologists reconstructed a Hun skull and showed they altered their skull shapes when young into oval shapes.

  • @yigityaren2098
    @yigityaren2098 4 роки тому +1

    i always come to read comments rather than watching the video. Keep fightin

  • @NicoCoeurDeLion
    @NicoCoeurDeLion 4 роки тому +16

    Could you imagine having a Steppe horde or Viking berserker unit rush your village. I’m glad I live in modern times

    • @cyc25ruffneck
      @cyc25ruffneck 3 роки тому +3

      Yeah, now all you have to deal with are deranged liberals!

    • @lyhthegreat
      @lyhthegreat 3 роки тому +1

      @@cyc25ruffneck or Terrorists

  • @bycio
    @bycio 3 роки тому +32

    May the spirit of ATTİLA, the high ancestor of the Turks, be praised
    I'm a turk, great tengri Protect the Turks

    • @mutton9622
      @mutton9622 3 роки тому +1

      The Tengri Khan from China will protect you. Go to Wikipedia and search “Tengri Khan/ Khan of heaven”.

    • @behruz5231
      @behruz5231 3 роки тому +1

      @@mutton9622 beacuse everything on wiki is %100 true

    • @mutton9622
      @mutton9622 3 роки тому +1

      @@behruz5231 nahhh, i just provide a source. just it. Gokturks used to call Chinese emperor "tengri khan" or "khan of heaven".
      aka"天可汗"。

    • @digitalboy4415
      @digitalboy4415 3 роки тому

      Turks who believed in ALLAH defeated the Turks-Mongols who believed in Tengri and stayed in power for almost 800 years by the grace of ALLAH.

    • @pablocejas01
      @pablocejas01 3 роки тому

      @@digitalboy4415 yes of course that’s why. Such a dumb statement.

  • @0nowztar495
    @0nowztar495 4 роки тому +36

    I'm your Han(Leader), (points to his wife) and this is my Han'im - Cengiz Han
    Huns, Timurids, Balkan Bulgars etc. etc. they all descendants of one of the 2 arms(Bozoklar and Ucoklar) 6 tribes (Gun Han, Ay Han, Yildiz Han, Gok Han, Dag Han, Deniz Han) of the Turks..

    • @hazard1648
      @hazard1648 4 роки тому +1

      I’m your Khan

    • @0nowztar495
      @0nowztar495 4 роки тому +4

      @@hazard1648 It's actually HAN not Khan..

    • @hazard1648
      @hazard1648 4 роки тому

      0nowztar In Mongolian it’s KHAN

    • @hazard1648
      @hazard1648 4 роки тому

      0nowztar we pronounce like “Han”

    • @0nowztar495
      @0nowztar495 4 роки тому

      ​@@hazard1648 nope wrong again in Mongolian its ХAАН not KHAN.. Khan is English.. and btw does hanim sound like Mongolian to you? it ain't is it ? so its HAN know your own language before trying to teach others..