The Huns integrated one of the most warlike peoples of antiquity. From Central Asia, it is believed that in the third century BC dominated the entire northern continent, from the Korea Strait to the Ural Mountains. Eminent horsemen were used bows and arrows, spears and swords. The historians described them as people with broad shoulders, small black eyes, flat nose and coarse gestures. They moved from one region to another at high speed. In the year 374 they crossed the Volga and reached the Danube, threatened Syria, invaded Persia and were allies of the Romans, who used them as forces to fight other barbarians. In 450 the Huns invaded western Europe, led by Attila the king, whose army was defeated by the Romans and the Visigoths at the Battle of Chalons Fields, near Châlons-sur-Marne. The power of this town finally collapsed with the death of his great leader, Attila, in 453.
China has long endured the invasions of the Huns. To defend against them, the Emperor Chi-Huang-Ti (221-210 BC) proposed to build a large wall. Over the centuries this great defensive wall was extended and became known as the Great Wall of China.
The Huns were nomads: they had no settlements. Children and women lived in the wagons. They ate meat, cheese and mare's milk.