Huns capturing Chinese
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Topic: Huns capturing Chinese
Posted By: tommy
Subject: Huns capturing Chinese
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 14:38
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why huns kept on capturing chinese when they invaded, did they sell chinese to the west, if so, chinese entered the west, any account? ------------- leung |
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Posted By: TheMysticNomad
Date Posted: 16-May-2007 at 04:39
| I know of no acccount of Chinese being sold to the west by Huns. Someone on this forum once suggested that some captured Chinese were pressed into the service of the Hun military. That would be consistent with what we know of Hun tactics concerning captives (that were, uh, allowed to live). |
Posted By: xi_tujue
Date Posted: 16-May-2007 at 05:02
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^ for a while at least *evil smile*
------------- I rather be a nomadic barbarian than a sedentary savage |
Posted By: pekau
Date Posted: 16-May-2007 at 19:21
Interesting question. Most likely, the Huns would either use them as slaves or just kill off for their entertainment... but trading with Europe is not a good idea financially. They have to feed the Chinese slaves well, and have to drag them all the way to Europe from China. That would have increased the cost for slaves in the market. Furthermore, I don't think many European nobles preferred expensive foreign slaves that cannot speak European languages at all. Besides, they may not be even reliable. They might possess evil magic for all we know.
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Posted By: cliveersknell
Date Posted: 16-May-2007 at 19:24
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Many Han soldiers and generals defected and served the Xiongnu.
Good example is General Li Lin . The Han court and the courts of most
Han based dynasties are unforgivable to generals who lost battles.
Slaves in nomadic societies are not as bad as sedentary societies.
They eventually become blended into the mainstream.
r's
Clive
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Posted By: tommy
Date Posted: 17-May-2007 at 15:40
May not to Europe, but to those oasis cities or persia ------------- leung |
Posted By: pekau
Date Posted: 17-May-2007 at 18:51
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Posted By: Siege Tower
Date Posted: 01-Jun-2007 at 13:22