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You're mixing up your history. The Huns were an entirely different nomadic people (separated from the Mongol Empire by about a thousand years). Prestor John was
by skaevola 12y ago
You're mixing up your history. The Huns were an entirely different nomadic people (separated from the Mongol Empire by about a thousand years). Prestor John was a mythical Christian king who lived beyond the Islamic lands and whose land was full of wealth and treasures.
- encoderer 12y agoNo I'm not. The russians of the time called the mongols by the ancient name "huns." Or at least, those that wrote the history did. Prestor John was the mythical christian king who was purportedly laying waste to Islam from the east as Europe was attacking in the crusades from the west. Of course, at that time, it was Genghis Khan that was attacking the Islamic states from the west.