The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.159
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.159
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The latter poured into Eastern Europe in A. D. 375, forcing the Goths to the south of the Danube, and thus indirectly causing the sanguinary Gothic war, which cost the Emperor Valens his life in A. D. 378. The Huns quickly spread over the lands between the Volga and the Danube; but, owing to chronic disunion and the lack of a great leader, failed to make full use of their advantageous position until Attila appeared, and for a few years welded the savage mass into an instrument of such power that he was 'able to send equal defiance to the courts of Ravenna and Constantinople'.¹