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How did the Huns eat?
The Huns ate raw meat. The Huns were known to “cook” a slab of meat while on horseback. A Hun would place the piece of meat between his leg and his horse’s side and ride around with it there all day. The heat created between man and horse would “cook” the meat.
How did Attila the Hun died in 453 AD?
They married in 453, just as Attila was preparing another attack on the Eastern Roman Empire and its new emperor, Marcian. No wound could be found, and it appeared that Attila had suffered a bad nosebleed while lying in a stupor and choked to death on his own blood.
Were the samurai as effective as the Huns?
There have been many fierce armies: the Huns under Attila, the Roman legions, Rommel’s armored divisions. But there have been few individual men of war as trained or as effective as the Samurai. They were deadly and brutal warrior-knights who eventually were able to fuse the aggression of battle with the serene contemplation of Zen Buddhism.
Why did the Minamoto and Taira fight in the Genpei War?
White was the clan color of the Minamoto, like the House of York, while the Taira used red like the Lancasters. However, the Genpei War predated the Wars of the Roses by three hundred years. In addition, the Minamoto and Taira were not fighting to take the throne of Japan; instead, each wanted to control the imperial succession. Lead-up to the War
Why did samurai fight to the death?
Each man was tied into one another, so much so that if there was no one else to fight and there were two people against a whole army, they would fight to the death. The master for whom the samurai fought and died was called his daimyō. The samurai would serve the daimyō in life as well as in death.
How did the government deal with the Satsuma Rebellion?
The government had already dealt with several small but violent samurai revolts, and the prospect of Satsuma samurai, which were widely regarded as the best in Japan, being led in rebellion by the Great Saigo was too terrible to contemplate. During the days of the han, Satsuma had taken a lead in arms manufacture and importation.