adila the H was a straight up down listen might as well call the guy Attila the hung because this dude took everybody to the meat pecking District if you know what I mean I don't I don't even know what I mean but it's provocative no it's not get the people going you have to understand that AA Han was a Thanos extinction level threat to Roman Empire and he basically slapped Rome around with like [Music] [Applause] and all the proof you need for that is in the nickname the Romans gave AA flum day which literally translates
to the scourge of God or in Modern English simply translates to dog but is it true that AA was a real life evil RPG playthrough or is history doing the man wrong was AA really the most evil man in history like many claim or was he a victim of the good old saying if you conquer from west to east you're great but if you do the same from east to west you're a baravarian yes AA was a conqueror and killed countless people while taking lands that these people weren't exactly willing to part with but that
kind of comes with the whole conqueror thing in general and the Romans played that game as well as anybody as did Alexander the Great as did Napoleon bonapar but somehow atila and chingis Khan always get the worst rep of all these conquerors and their Eastern origin most certainly plays a role in that I hate for I hate foreigners but that out of the way let's take an objective look at aa's achievements which no matter whether in the service of evil or good are impressive atila was the sole man in charge of building an empire that
rivaled the Romans and size and absolutely dominated their territory for 20 years but but but before all that like all stories aa's story starts with a woman realizing I'm pregnant you little [ __ ] the name of the pregnant woman in question is lost to the times but it might have been erak and her impregnator in question was Muk who in fact put two babies in his wife's oven one in 400 CE and the other one sometime later in 406 CE the older was named bleda and the younger one would become known as atila at
the time muk's father Uline was the leader of the Hunts were a nomadic people whose origin is kind of disputed we we think they might be descendants of somewhere in China but we're not sure they did however definitely fight against the Chinese at some point lost and said screw it these Chinese might be on to something with this whole Journey to the West thing so let's Journey Westward which which way is it that's that's Westward and so Westward the hanss went but not on some Buddhist peace thing no they journeyed West in search of blood
to the Western World these hunts kind of have just appeared out of nowhere riding their trademark horses and spreading Terror in every region they passed through and by Terror I mean murdering and raiding and otherwise are wording everybody they came across but again this version of the Hunts were just a bunch of horse riding murder loving likeminded nomadic tribes doing their thing they were far from United that Unity would only be achieved after uline's death when his sons ruga and OCTA took over AKA aa's uncles and aa's Dad the third brother Muk was kind of
like was kind of like the third member of Destiny's Child nice to be a part of the gang but nobody cares so with the brothers ruga and OCTA running the show slowly but surely they made these scattered nomatic tribes see that they are actually all operating under the same model and tribes that reap together stay together so now the newly unified hunts Force shared on the way to reaping and absolutely annihilating the entire West the Goths fell to the hands the vandals got gut the Franks got stomped the Lombards the Anglo Saxons and of course
also the Allens because what do you expect from a bunch of Allens and even other peoples were sent packing and being sent packing meant going anywhere that's as far away from the Huns as possible AKA going further west and it just so happened that further west was nothing but the territory of Rome and mind you that the Romans had done their fair share of Waring and slaughtering of all of these people themselves so many amongst them like the Goths have become sworn enemies to Rome meaning when these Goths came knocking on the Romans door asking
for refuge and help the Romans were like well well well how the turntables but the Romans let the Goths into their lands and in return imposed all kinds of restrictions on them taxation humiliation all of that basically they use the Goths as cheap labor cheap military or cheap otherwise So eventually the Goths were like you Romans are so cheap it almost feels like this is instant gaming I don't know if that was a smooth transition or just straight up terrible I just know that instant gaming is the good kind of cheat because they constantly have
discounts on all video games black myth wuk Kong God of War the new Zelda it doesn't matter Playstation Xbox PC Nintendo it doesn't matter because instant gaming has games word and they have them cheaper so go on ahead and check the price for whichever game you want anywhere on the web then check the price on instant gaming no seriously do it do it check check the price go ahead and do do it do it do it do it do it do it do it it the point is all games are cheaper on instant gaming code
only no physical copy but that's essentially the same as downloading from the PlayStation store or steam or any store it's all legal on in gaming it's all original on instant gaming there's no resets there's no use there's no cracking there's none of that and when it seems too good to be true it is actually the link in my description so click that or you'll get slaughtered like the Goths were by the Hunts until they escaped into Roman borders where at least they weren't dying to violence anymore but ended up living like dogs restrictions taxation humiliation
it wasn't long before the Goths decided to bite the hand that was barely feeding them and soon the Romans had a conflict within their own territory on their hands fighting off the refugee crisis that became the Goths this obviously seriously weakened Rome who already had an Empire that stretched as far as far as Asia and Africa and those borders were bordering Nations that weren't exactly on board with Rome's Conquest so the Romans couldn't afford the goth Refugee crisis escalating into a civil war not when the Roman Empire was already stretched so thin that Rome had
to establish two seats of power two Emperors two capitals dividing into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire which later became known as the Byzantine Empire you have to understand all this to know how troubling this goth Refugee crisis was for Rome especially knowing that there's an undefeated Army of violent hanss blitzing every battle with their Cavalry and barreling down on Rome so the hanik invasion was already a major problem for Rome before a single Roman soldier even crossed blades with a hunt Warrior luckily for Rome ruga who had since taken sole control
of the hanss after his brother octar died in 30 CE ruga had a s set on Persia first and so the hanss rode their horses all the way to Persia and yeah they got whooped and the hanss versus Persia the whole battle it wasn't even close yeah surprise if you don't come at Persia like this forget about the H road trip to Persia did however give Rome enough time to come up with a plan in light of the refug Refugee crisis and the large empire Rome had to control with enemies and rebellions everywhere they decided
that the best course of action was to use the hanss and their Warrior ways to their advantage the Romans hired the huning Warriors as mercenaries to fight any battle that Rome couldn't attend to it was actually genius and worked so well that the Roman civilization kind of celebrated the hunts for a time calling them the terror of the barbarians and the support of the Republic oh and you should know that barbarians to the Romans is basically anyone that isn't Roman so with that uneasy peace with the Hans established things stayed quiet for a while until
the Han leader ruga died in 434 CE and since ruga was shooting blanks all his life the third brother Muk suddenly shot into relevancy you see Muk had two sons Huga nephews who were now the rightful heirs to the throne and their names were BEDA and atila the two brothers now took over in 434 CE and being bred into leadership in an Ever more powerful hanik Empire that lived for battle and bloodshed the brothers knew nothing but Warfare and were the perfect Warlords that took the H to new heights side note that the brothers power
dynamic as co- rulers was never quite clear but BEDA died in 455 CE anyway so it didn't even matter all that much and it's also not clear how blad died but that violent brother of his who had a lot to gain by his demise seems like a solid candidate for cause of death so atila was in charge of the Hunts and thanks to the writings of Roman Diplomat priscus of panum we know a little of how to imagine AA he described the leader of the Hunts as he was Hardy in his walk rolling his eyes
hither and titer so that the power of His proud Spirit appeared in the movement of his body he was indeed a lover of War yet restrained in action Mighty in counsel gracious to supplicants and lenient to those who were once received into his protection he was short of stature with a broad chest and a large head his eyes were small his beard thin and sprinkled with gray and he had a flat nose and a sarthy complexion showing the evidence of his origin and though his temper was such that he always had great self-confidence yet his
Assurance was increased by finding the sword of Mars always esteemed sacred so this guy was now in charge and AA had rown by the ball so bad that this Foreigner casually claimed he was a demigod wielding the sword of the Roman God of War Mars and no Roman said a damn thing about this this obvious blasphemy the Romans were just like okay they were terrified of AA and all they wanted was to stay on aila's good side and like every bully knows a scared victim is a gift that keeps on giving AA figured that since
Rome is so damn scared of him and his army he might as well just threaten them to pay him more or he'll stop playing mercenary for them and it worked Rome was stretched so thin and so in need of the Han's mercenaries so desperate to be cool with them that they agreed to whatever tribute atila came up with so atila increased the yearly gold tribute to 60 kg of gold and then later in 435 he increased it some more 25 kg of gold and because AA was not the kind of guy that is satisfied once
you give him a finger but actually once you to give him the whole thing that that came out wrong that came out entirely wrong since AA is a daredevil AA was like wait aren't there technically two Roman Empires now and he made Rome sign another treaty for more gold because two empires but you have to understand that AA was not after the go for his personal gain or vanity No in fact AA refused luxury and adornments While others in his Camp drank from Golden cups AA drank from a wooden cup and always kept things simple
and quiet he just cared about his war and all Rome's gold was was a way to finance that that war those campaigns which allowed him and his Huns to terrorize every other European nation everything from the Balkans to Greece man about 70 cities killing hundreds of thousands in the process the Hans absolutely dominated Europe until they grew their own Empire to a size that rivaled Rome and at this point the Romans were like he's going to make us give him more lunch money again isn't he and the answer was yeah another treaty more money for
hands it was at some point Rome was paying a yearly tribute of 700 kg of gold but of course Rome is not just some forever victim there was a reason they're considered the greatest empire ever and as they were paying off their bully they were actually just spiting time to assemble an army that could actually make a stand against atila and the Hans because they knew it was just a matter of time until atila would amass enough power to attack and take down Rome itself and actually turns out that that matter of time was also
a matter of the heart the thing that finally made atila attack the Roman Empire to strike Rome itself was [Music] love no the year is 450 CE and the current emperor of Rome is valentinian III and ever the Romantic he wanted to force his daughter honoria into a political marriage with some disgusting dude that she wanted no part of and since atila had the reputation of wielding the sword of Mars Mona could only imagine what other Godly Parts he was wielding and she wrote a love letter to this dreamy exotic bad boy a love letter
in which she pled to him to come save her from this unwanted marriage rescue her and take her hand and AA ever the White Knight and bloody armor did come to her Aid sack Rome for a woman in need that he never even met and once he saved honoria from her father him and her ruled Rome side by side happily ever after which is why we now to this day speak of the term honor when a man is loyal and dedicated to his wife just like how AA was to of course not of course that
didn't happen be ashamed of yourself if you believe that you consume too much Hollywood like the truth is that yes honoria did send a letter to AA out of spite for the marriage that she didn't want that's real but outside of it being some plea for help the exact contents of that letter are unknown except that she included her engagement ring in the letter AA though interpreted the Letter's contents as a marriage offer AKA an offered to be the new owner of the Roman Empire AKA a good enough excuse to attack Rome under the pretense
of love and just taking what is now right rightfully his basically atila felt like Rome was his wedding gift so to collect that wedding gift atila brought over 200,000 guests and came knocking on Rome's door like the big bad wolf he was huffing and puffing leaving the little scared Roman piggies with no choice but to cry for help and guess who they turned to the Romans turned to their enemy turned Refugee they turned to the Goths now the Goths were the enemy of my enemy who was my enemy turned Refugee turned enemy no longer enemy
I don't know anyway the Goths agreed because a it was a way to improve their situation within Roman territory and it gave them leverage and B if they didn't fight alongside the Romans against the Hans now AA and his army would later just come after them on their way to take over everything Rome didn't just ask the Goths though you have to understand that atila was a Thanos leev threat so the Roman Empire officially appointed General Flavio AOS as Captain Rome and cap Rome managed to convince everybody else to stand with Rome and the Goths
against the hanss the Franks the Saxons the burundians even the Allens they all rallied to Captain Rome's side to become the Roman Avengers in the Battle of Europe like Avengers assemble in fact Captain Rome Flavio AOS had once actually fought alongside the Hans back when the Romans hired them as mercenaries you remember so AOS Captain Rome he was familiar with their ferocity a familiarity that probably only inspired fear when he let the Roman Avengers into battle against Thanos thean on June 20th in 450 1 a a battle that went down as one of History's bloodiest
military conflicts at that point a battle in which the bodies just piled up in the thousands [Music] [Applause] like but in the end after Rome finally got all of its Brothers to whoop AA after school with class they finally defeated the mighty Han Aila lost and retreated to his camp and the Goths were ready to go after him and completely annihilate atala and eradicate the hanss entirely but Captain Rome convinced them not to do that but to return home and lick their wounds rather than rush into enemy territory hastily this was less atheos being considerate
for the lives of the Visigoths or the hanss he was planning ahead he knew that Rome was currently weakened in need of allies and as long as there was a common enemy in the Hunts the other tribes like the Goths would seek to remain allies should the hanss be defeated now the other nations that Rome had subjugated for years would remember their grudges and could launch a unified attack with the Goths to end the Roman Empire so the hanss had to remain on life support for now but the problem was ailan life support was like
a wounded Saiyan recovering after a great battle you get me bro I do not understand I do I I understood that reference and if you don't get that reference when Sans almost die in battle they always come back stronger less than a year later atila returned to Western Rome to avenge his loss and immediately raised one or three cities to the ground in fact this time he plundered and raided and murdered and enslaved so hard that there was such a wave of refugees fleeing these lands that they literally went on to build a whole new
city protected by water so that the hanss and their horses couldn't get to them a city we now know as Venice aka the house that AA built it seems that his loss to the Roman Avengers had made AA worse than ever he was on his end game now and Rome had nothing left to counter him with in fact aa's revenge tour was so dominant that he even had time to make some stops to relax X party get married not to honoria that was just another useful tool at the time to get into the Romans heads
and claim legitimacy and tool to attack them no now he got married for real AA married ILO in early 453 and the man man he enjoyed himself on his wedding day because how could he not he came back from certain death he was stronger than ever had Rome on its knees and was about to marry a beautiful young woman AA must and like I'm the king of the world and then he popped a blood vessel got internal bleeding choked on his own blood and died yeah and that's how quick the Mighty Fall thank you for
watching [Music] there is of course some confusion over atilla's death was it really just a popped blood vessel was it internal bleeding caused by years years of excessive drinking was it a poisoned drink at his wedding was he assassinated we will never really know but what we do know is that his people all cut their long hair and slash their cheeks in honor of their great leader and to signify that they are not mourning him with the tears and wailing of women but with the blood of man and while that sounds really cool really tough
and If This Were A Movie this would definitely set up some epic sequel of the HT strike back epic the reality is that without atila the hanik Empire crumbled his sons and those who believed to be his heirs or carry his Spirit or were just close to him everybody started fighting over succession the lands over the right to titles the hanik Empire lost focus and it fell apart over the following years after aa's death the Hans rapidly became less and less of a threat to Rome and yet still I argue that despite not being there
to witness its demise it was Aila who ultimately was the one to defeat Rome sure it was other tribes that later actually invaded Roman lands and sacked the city Brick by Brick took it apart but it was Aila and the Hans that upset the balance of power in these lands and imposed a refugee crisis on Rome that was so taxing and sent so many tribes running westwards that it led to Rome literally imploding AA orchestrated Rome's downfall he just wasn't around to actually see the Empire crumble in the end instead AA was put to rest
in an unknown riverbed buried alongside iron and silver buried in seet secret for all that buried him took their own lives to allow their great leader to forever rest in peace such was their Devotion to [Music] [Applause] [Music]
