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By Michael Maas

This booklet examines the age of Attila, approximately the 5th century CE, an period during which western Eurasia skilled major geopolitical and cultural alterations. The Roman Empire collapsed in western Europe, changed by way of new 'barbarian' kingdoms, however it persisted in Christian Byzantine guise within the japanese Mediterranean. New states and peoples replaced the face of northern Europe, whereas in Iran, the Sasanian Empire built new theories of strength and executive. whilst, the good Eurasian steppe turned an enduring presence within the eu international. This publication treats Attila, the infamous king of the Huns, as either an agent of swap and an emblem of the spoil of the outdated international order.

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