Huns

In 376, the Visigoths were allowed into the Eastern Empire to escape the Huns. When the Roman authorities failed to effectively take care for these migrants, the Visigoths revolted and destroyed an entire Roman army and Emperor Valens at the battle of Adrianople in 378. The Visigoths’ king, Alaric, wanted the Roman titles and…

frequently during a 69 year period. Rome was just starting to head into its sudden and uncontrollable descent in power. In a 50 year period Rome lost 22 leaders. Out of that ROme Lost 12 Leaders to assassination (Doc A). The Huns were a main danger to Rome. The Huns supposedly “ Exceed any definition of savagery” giving…

The Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty were among the most prosperous empires in world history, sharing alike qualities, positive and negative. Both had extraordinary developments and advances, but also sharing qualities that found themselves descending to a collapse. The Roman and Han empires thrived economically in trade. Less trade due to pirates along trade routes weakened the amount of taxes returning to the government. In addition to trade, raising taxes evenly weakened both empires. In…

How Did the Roman Empires fall? The Han, Roman and Gupta empires fell because of the nomadic invaders, diseases and failing government. The Han empire fell because of both internal and external reasons. Internal Causes: By the 180s the Han court had grown weak, because of emperors who lived only for amusement. Army generals lead to massacres within the palace. The Han government had trouble collecting enough tax revenue to fund the court and to support the army that defended China from external…

time. She wants to be able to honor her family in doing the right things but cannot seem to. When a war starts between the Huns and the Chinese, Mulan takes the place of her father who is too old to fight in the war. She goes to fight in the war and had to prove herself in the army but eventually becomes one of the best soldiers and saves China and the Emperor from the Huns. She is able to return home to her family with honor. In the movie Mulan, the first cultural value and one of the most…

representation of females after finding out that she is capable of achieving what a man can do. I will include quotes and paragraphs from different people 's opinions and have my thoughts on it. This is setback when there was a war in china with the huns invading, and then the chinese emperor begins to assemble an army by giving a conscription notice, demanding a man from each family to join the war. But since Mulan 's elderly father is the only man in the household he has to go to war again,…

Brain Pop, it shows how the soldiers left their posts to fight one another, which made it easy for invaders to get in Roman territory. The Huns were another reason that the Romans fell. Document D states, “these swift-moving and ungovernable people make their destructive way amid the pillage and slaughter of those who live around them.” This shows that since the Huns invaded Rome, they must have weakened Rome by getting into Roman territory, and killing a lot of people.…

story, Mulan, Mulan defeated the Huns in a clever way. Mulan and the rest of the soldiers were outnumbered by the Huns. Everyone besides Mulan started to get out their swords. Mulan, on the other hand, had a different approach. According to “Woman Warrior,” “Ping [Mulan’s fake name] suddenly gets an idea and rushes to a fire cannon at a distant peak. Sure enough, the blast sets off an avalanche and the Huns are buried…” (Brown and Shapiro, 1). Mulan had defeated the Huns in this moment and was a…

The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is “the most awesome structure ever devised by man, one that “lies across the northern borders of China like some great sleeping dragon, stretching and sunning itself on the peaks and ridges of some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the world…The Great Wall of China was more than 2,000 years in the building, and the only way man can look upon the sum total of handiwork is by viewing it from outer space (Waldron, pg 2).” The Great Wall…

Round two of the west falls begins with the 451 Battle of Chalons. During this battle, the Huns’ leader, Atilla, dies and they lose the battle. The Huns later fall away from history and the Ostrogoths come into play. The Ostrogoths want to control Rome knowing it is at a very weak stage and they officially invaded the Roman Empire. In 490, Theodoric, ruler of the west, is…