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The «Great Migration»

Why the Huns staged the «Great Migration»

Since the 4th century, an unprecedented ethno-territorial perturbation has occurred in history. The warlike tribes of the Huns nomads displaced the equally fierce tribes of the German hunters. This bloody substitution of one nation for another was called the Great Migration of Peoples.

What forced the Huns to leave the banks of the Itil (Volga) – to go towards the Danube, no one really knows.

The climate pessimum

Experts say that a cold snap has come. Volcanoes have been revived since the 4th century. The sky darkened. Clouds of smog obscured the earth from the sun. There was a shortage of food in the steppe. People and tribes suffered from famine.

The climatic maximum. Before the 4th century, it was exactly the opposite

The sky was clear. So the sun was shining brightly in the sky. Harvests and livestock offspring inspired people with optimism. So, until the 4th century, a favorable climatic maximum occurred throughout the inhabited world: an abundance of food contributed to population growth.

After the population growth, there was a shortage of food.

This is understandable.

But why the Huns? Why not other nomads, the same Alans, who were «tired of Huns raids.» Were there no more starving nomads in the Great Steppe?

That’s the thing, they were. But it was the Huns who became the «scourge of God.»

Why the Huns were illegitimate

Before the Huns became Guns, the Guns were Huns. And they lived on the Mongolian plateau and lived next to the Celestial Empire.

They lived side by side restlessly. All the time, they inconvenienced the farmers with their raids. It was against them that Emperor Qing Shi Huang built the Great Wall of China. The Chinese wanted to assimilate the nomads culturally at first, but they failed. By the 1st century BC, they got tired of it, and the Han Chinese staged a genocide against the Xiongnu. The most warlike Huns («indomitable» according to Gumilev) fled to the west and reached the interlude of the Don and Volga. For 200 years of such movement, the Huns passed through the lands of the Ugrians, Sarmatians, that is, other lords of the steppes. They did not merge with them but took women from the Ugrians and Sarmatians because they left their Hunnic women in China and Semirechye to break away from the Chinese pursuit. That’s how some of the Sarmatians, pressed by the Huns and the Alans, ended up in the North Caucasus and the Black Sea region. From mixing with the Ugrians and Sarmatians, the Huns began pronouncing the «g» sound from the Alan phonemes. The Ugrians and Sarmatians lost some of their women but survived because they used the same tactics of flight and retreat. In addition, the Alans have not yet built any walls, like the Chinese built the Great Wall of China. It didn’t make the Alans feel any better. Meanwhile, some Alans settled down and began to build watchtowers. Other Alans went west with the Goths (so that the Spaniards would have the region of Catalonia – Goths + Alans, and the French in the 20th-century actor Alain Delon was born).

Let’s assume that the genetics of the «indomitable» Huns are to blame for everything. Wherever they settled, there was no peace for anyone. That’s how the Huns staged the Great Migration of peoples due to the earth’s cooling. The Xiongnu spread their wild energy across the earth. The entropy of this energy has been «shining» for many people for several centuries