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- Certainly steppe nomads, but can they have carried this on into Europe. Herder – nomad can rely on plunder as well as normal pastoralism
- Herders moved on when environmental situation decided – nomad military threat needed horse for; speed, range and mobility. Battle and then escape.
- Needed horses, but lifestyle promises wealth and adventure. Domination and suffocations to victims. – do Huns rely on horses and could they use them in Europe?
- Wagons left behind on raids – swiftness and surprise
- Always assumed that West of Carpathians used horses – but can Great Hungarian Plain sustain horses?
- 406Uldin helps Rome defeat Radagaissus – big shields show lack of horses. Eastern seems to be more evidence of horses. Because Attila and Beda neg on horseback, always assumed that they were on horseback.
- Huns were ambushed, seems difficult when on horseback
- Priscus 449 – hardly a temporary settlement – lavish baths and extensive buildings.
- 451 – evidence points to lack of horseman not proliferation of horses. Only one source suggesting horses. Few horse remains found in old Hunnic empire
- No nomads could adapt to European plains – compare to Mongols in the Eastern Empire
- Could Great Hungarian Plain sustain horses? No – crossing Carpathians devastate nomad political and military strength.
- Huns became more sedentary – tributes and plunder better than agricultural. More dependent on infantry.
- Semi Nomadism West Carpathians – how implies fishing, cultivation, NOT Nonmadism.
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