Finally An Honest Video About Atilla The Hun

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Alright, let me wrap up my Enemies of Rome series with Rome's last antagonist, who was probably their greatest threat ever:
Atilla The Hun.
It is fair to say that Atilla ended the Roman Empire, but it is not that quite as simple as that statement makes it seem, but.... obviously I'll explain in detail in the video. Make sure you read the notes below for everything I missed in the video.

Notes:
In the video I don't mention the episode where Rome supposedly sent the Pope to talk to Atilla. The story goes that Pope Leo was the one to convince Atilla to hold out on attacking Rome, by impressing Atilla with his faith and character... yeah right.
I don't believe that for one second.
I know revisionist history when I see it.
I say Atilla probably ran out of resources, which led to a bit of famine, a bit of disease and so the pace of this revenge campaign could no longer be maintained, and so Atilla slowed down for a whole.

Another thing I didn't mention in the video, but a fact that I love, yet don't necessarily believe to be true:
Apparently even The Huns' horses were mad dangerous and would kick and bite in battle.
Some real anime stuff, if you ask me. But... such is the life of conquerors.

Also, here's some more on Honoria:
Some historians blame her for the fall of the Western empire, saying she snitched on Rome by writing that letter and inviting Atilla, but....
At this point, Rome was already crumbling and it seemed a safe bet that Atilla would take over. What Honoria did was just making sure that she'd have a place in this new Hunnic Empire and not burn with the rest of Rome. Just cold calculating on her part.
But then in the end she got exiled and at some point died of mysterious circumstances, so... that didn't really work out for her.
She was right about Rome crumbling though...

I also don't really make a distinction between the Goths and the Visigoths in my video, because it would have just taken up time.
Basically the Visigoths evolved out of the Goths — with the latter being the umbrella term.

The opening scenes are from History channel's Barbarians rising, which is amazing. Credit to them, and definitely check out their Atilla episode.

Music:
Despair and Triumph by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...