Huns

The Chinese and the Xiongnu fought in an important area of the silk road: the western regions of China. Han ended victoriously, but the win almost demolished their government. Most of the Xiongnu went and joined other nomadic people; some joined the Huns which would invaded Rome. Attila, a warrior-king, formed a powerful military. To begin their attack on Rome, Attila and his army attacked the Germanic peoples causing them to seep into the Roman empire for safety. Little resistance faced Attila…

Seneca the Elder of Rome once said, “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” The Roman empire was illustrated as a government spearheaded by emperors that controlled several parts of the Mediterranean, Asia, and Africa. The empire was one of the most powerful economic, political, cultural, and militant forces the early world had seen. It ensured a lasting influence of Latin culture, language, religion, and art. The fall of Rome was not the end of the world, but an end of a…

Death is often viewed as a tragic, terrible event, yet it it also often romanticized. Despite the horror that was World War I, emphasis is often placed on the heroic bravery of the soldiers. Likewise, the ancient Greeks glorified death, especially death in battle. Kleos, a word which roughly translates as “glory” or “reputation,” perfectly represents the Greek desire to be remembered as a hero. The Odyssey, written by Homer, critiques this desire by showing how the pursuit of kleos inevitably…

elites: deforestation, desertification, soil erosion, silted rivers. B. External problems resulted from the security issues along their frontiers, including the threat of invasion: between Han China and the Xiongnu, between the Gupta and the White Huns, between the Romans and their northern and eastern neighbors. Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange I. Land and water resources became the basis for transregional trade, communication, and exchange networks in…

Splash, splash and more splashes. The enclosed beach is silent, before a storm brews above. People escape the beach, quickly grapping their possessions as rain spits down on them. Gentle waves lap the shore, seagull swooped down from the sky determined to catch their unsuspecting prey. Soft moisturised fingers tingled against mine, grapping her attention slowly he leaned forward and laid he 's head on her shoulders. She counted every breath he took and wandered about what the deep oceans…

I woke up from my fanciful dream, flipped over on my bed and looked at my phone and couldn’t believe that today has finally came. Today is the day that my life will forever change with greatness that I will be soon married to the man of my dreams. I vaulted out of my bed, slid into clean clothes and quickly got ready to meet up with my maid of honor Roxy. Her hair was a rich shade of mahogany with golden highlights. The natural flow of her wavy hair perfectly framed her cream-coloured skin. Her…

Christmas Truce I smile. For the first time in my few weeks here, I smile. I run to look over the steep, mud wall of the trench and through the dirtied barbed wire. Men from both sides of the ravaged field are walking towards each other. Not towards the onslaught which usually comes with an expedition to No-Mans’ Land, but towards each other with open arms. I hoist myself over the trench wall, I have always expected going over the top to be the last moments of my life. It still could be, but…

Applejack was swept backward from the shock of it, stumbling into the door as Claudia cowered against her. The girl's face clenched into her shoulder, both arms pressing around her waist. Afraid to reach out, afraid the girl might flinch away from her touch, she simply stood there, a passive recipient to the girl's terror, still and silent as dawn in the near-darkness. They were standing so close she could feel her bare knees brush the thin fabric of Claudia's jeans, the girl's breath wisping…

remember that day and be honored.. Saint Ursula's day is on October 21. “She headed for Rome, with her followers, and persuaded the Pope, Cyriacus, and Sulpicius, Bishop of Ravenna, to join them. On their return, Cologne, Germany, was being sacked by the Huns, who after Ursula refused some advances of their prince, beheaded all 11.001 of them, supposedly in 383. One of the 11,000, St Cordula, escaped death on the first day by hiding, wrote down the tale for posterity, then gave herself…

Billy Stevens was just a regular teenage boy. He went to school, had friends that he consorted with, had parents who loved him. Life was normal for him. Until the war started. Hundreds of thousands of boys his age enlisted to fight for the cause. Despite his mother’s wishes, Stevens did too. He was hoping to find action, adventure, and glory on the battlefield. What he found instead was a trauma that he would never get over. Billy Stevens experienced many forms of trauma during his service in…