Let's Find Out - Attila the Hun VS Rome | ASMR

Episode Date: November 29, 2019

Thanks to Sebastian Williams for supporting the channel and suggesting I do an ancient war campaign. I had fun researching this one. *Attila (thanks for correcting the spelling guys) and his Huns seemingly came out of nowhere, but modern Hungary (the eastern edges of Europe) is really their origin. He nearly sacked the entire Roman Empire, and certainly played a key role in weakening it, as the throne was officially usurped by a German (Odoacer) less than 30 years after Atilla's sweeping campaign against Rome.

Hey guys. So I wanted you to see this I found for centuries really to maintain our empire's borders all the way in England, over out east in Persia, Israel, Palestine, North Africa, in Carthage. Attila's kind of a scary dude. He's just going and I think he's been quoted as saying, There where I get guys, this is just a local election paper. Pamphlet on a newspaper, really thin, crisp, crispy, crinkly. Makes some really good sounds. So for those of you who are new to the channel, this might just seem like a weird, really awkwardly acted out. To those of you who are veterans, this is on top of that also a standard, a standard.

table of the channel. Generally, I'd just like to find something nice to pretend I'm reading out of. In all seriousness, today, they were brilliant at these running the state, in developing states, and running armies, and military tactics, a little less brilliant with philosophy and goal-minded, less abstract. And because of the brilliance, they were able to absorb, So, so many assimilate those local gods into the big, just like any great immigration of peoples. After a couple of your citizen, generally you can, military starts being insiders. I mean right at a very, you know, why does all this matter? It's because Attila, I think, was an important, it appears.

The day, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, in the Balkans, the area north of Greece. He also invaded Gaul, which is modern-day France, with the intention of conquering it, though he was defeated in the great battle of the Catalonian plains. So let's figure out what that is. I'm going to see how that ties into the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Germanic kingdoms. Much of Attila's from his relentless campaigns was 77. B.C. roughly 395, maybe 80 years before. Emperor Theodosius. Odocius, 0.395, AD, is divided into two parts. The Eastern Empire, governed by his son Arcadius, in, I think, Byzantium, Constantinople, and de Istanbul, Western Empire, by his son Honorius.

50 years later, the barbarian peoples, the Swabians, the Vandals, the Visigoths, these Germans are slowly working their way down. Across the Danube and the Rhine rivers, the main rivers dividing Europe, in the east, north and south, kind of, you could think of it like that. Tila, the King of the Huns, from 445, invades golf. A Roman German-Germanic coalition, A Aecious, defeats with this loot after his death, the Hunnic Empire quickly disintegrates. Siri, because, you know, a hundred years before that, it was divided into the Roman Empire and jurisdiction. It's a political unity existence, really, until 14. The really interesting fact

was that Odoacer, the German warrior, he deposed. He didn't kill, but deposed this last. Let's see where how Rome got to the point of being so weak its emperor could be easily disposed of. I had zero-80 germishes. The threat started to erode imperial authority itself during a series of disastrous. Of course, Rome was built on the economic policy, dairy policy. Of course, every time as they expanded, they had the wealth. not only the wealth of those lands could pillage, but also the ability to do. 370s reports. So the huns who had arrived so swiftly, seems like they came out of nowhere, sweeping across Europe. And Attila learned to shoot a bow at three, learned to wield a saber at five, I think it was.

learned a ride a horse. These sedentary, who lived on the steps of Eastern Asia near modern-day Mongolia. 445, having inherited lands that stretched from modern-day Germany, Black Sea, in the east, Attila began his rule by murdering his brother Bleda above the Huns. In the early years of his reign, they were marked by a camp. pain of terror against the Eastern Roman Empire. Devastating incursion penetrating D-47. Medration and takeover of deep, deep Greece was a foreshadowing. Pretty much their puncture

of the Roman bubble. Jury was not. His wife. The dowry should be a considerable portion. Get his dowry demands met. Atila just used that as a legitimate, ultimate reason to invade. Eventually he hoped to unleash there would force Valentinium to pay him to leave. So either way he was trying to get what he wanted. Attila saw Gall as an easy relation was composed of Visigoths, which I think is another word for Western Visi meaning Western Goths. Not necessarily his expectation of weak opposition, however, had not taken into account the skillful de-Plavius Aesio, if you're, because Flaeus Aesius, Zygots, Aesius had spent time as a hostage of the Huns. So interesting,

like this modern-day war in some maybe respects, opposing sides who are literally drawing swords to kill and killing one another, can respect for each other. Flavius Aesius aimed at keeping a majority of the barbarians settled in Gaul under control. Despite his abilities of a military leader like this, nothing better illustrates just how much. The estimates suggest that 50 years before the number of Roman soldiers in Gaul

had exceeded 50,000. But 50 years later, of civil scirmishes and neglect had depleted its ranks to only a few thousand once wreaked their usual devastation on Gaul after Attila was denied the hand of Honoria in the opposition that he met

increasingly frustrated Attila's aim of smash I wouldn't say indiscriminately he certainly killed a lot of priests but I guess if you're trying to destabilize a culture. You know, you cut off the head,

obliged Attila, decided to face down the Roman 6th. So, as they fought, the entire day, to their separate, that night, or early the next morning, when some of the Roman generals had abandoned camp in the middle of the night he lost,

was still very much. So despite taking away with him, considerable plunder he had accumulated, it was Attila's only major battleground, defeat. A year later, he invaded northern Italy, sacking the cities of Milan. But he was talked out of launching and attacked on the... And just a year later after that, the fierce amount leader died, somewhat anticlimacticly of a brain hemorrhage on his wedding night, and he was buried. He just said that to dug his graves were actually executed. Fired in a similar

way in that they actually took a small river like a small riverlet or a stream dammed it off and rerouted its course dug the grave came back else did not know whether where the grave was

I'd probably have that wrong but it was that's the general gist and ruthless magnetic leadership his heirs were unable to keep the Huns together as an empire the Huns dissipated

as quickly as it had arrived. Historians debated its legacy ever since, questioning the extent to which the century of Hun of the hero of Gaul, General Aeotius, exemplifies such folly. In 454, just two years after Attila, a series of short-lived obscure emperors struggled to prevent their venerable state murdered from Augustus, from imploding. And in 476, the last of these abdicated to a German mercenary Odoacer, the Western Empire.

It was, apparently he was like a 16-year-old emperor now. And although Odoacer retained the title Emperor of Rome, it was clearly not a Roman on the throne any longer.