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The Huns were victors though, so the age old adage may need some updating
by tonmoy 10y ago
The Huns were victors though, so the age old adage may need some updating
- wu-ikkyu 10y ago"History is written by the victors, unless the victors can't write."
- marcosdumay 10y agoYep. History is written by... the people that cared to write it down. And Romans wrote a lot.
- vetinari 10y agoThat and the random chance of having your writings preserved through centuries. Burning down the libraries in not something unheard of.
- clw8 10y agoBurning wasn't necessary. Most texts that weren't copied continuously were simply lost. Our oldest sources for written Chinese are on dinosaur bones -- but the script already had characters that clearly show they also wrote with pen on bamboo slips, but we don't have any surviving examples of that until the Classical Chinese era.
- Spooky23 10y agoNot really. In my mind, they won the battle but lost the war. It all depends on your point of view. If you look over the last millennia, the Huns didn't leave a lot of legacy beyond finishing off the corpse of Western Roman Empire, which wasn't really an empire then anyway. Their culture was absorbed and we only know of them because of that. End of the day, they were ultimately just another band of warlords.
- mason240 10y agoThey lost at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains and were driven from Roman lands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plai...