As a consequence, in 435 Valentinian was forced to conclude a peace with Gaiseric, whereby the Vandals kept all their possessions in North Africa in return for a payment of tribute to the empire, while the Huns were granted new territory in Pannonia Savia to occupy.

He alludes to literary sources, which describe two contrasting models of interaction: the Sclavenes were prepared ( after a given period ) to accept prisoners as full and free members of their tribal groups ; on the other hand, the Huns ( although incorporating non-Hun groups ) kept them separate and subordinate.

The mounted archer became the archetypal warrior of the steppes and the composite bow was his archetypal weapon, used to protect the herds, in steppe warfare, and in incursions ( notably those of the Huns, Magyars, Mongols, and Turks ) into settled lands.

* Some 30, 000 Asian tribespeople migrate from the steppes to the west with 40, 000 horses and 100, 000 cattle, joining with Iranian tribespeople and with Mongols from the Siberian forests to form a group that will be known in Europe as the Huns.

In addition to assorted guards, peasants and executioners, they include the Huns, fortune tellers, dentists, bartenders, innkeepers, town criers, insurance salesmen, monks, rats, horses, dragons and frogs, to name a few.

The Huns arriving on the fringes of the Roman Empire in the late 4th century, riding their horses out of the great steppes of Central Asia into Germany and France.

The Huns lost their courage as they saw Angantyr ride through the lines slashing and cutting men and horses with Tyrfing.

The Huns fled but the Goths pursued them and filled the rivers with bodies so that they choked and this caused a flood which filled the valleys with dead men and horses.

After their setbacks against the Huns, Alaric was probably a child during the Goths ' mass migration across the Danube and their subsequent war with Rome.

The subject was apt for a papal state seeking clout, since it depicts the historical legend when the greatest of the popes Leo, with supernatural aid, deterred the Huns from looting Rome.

Uldin, a prince of the Huns, appeared on the Danube about this time and advanced into Thrace, but he was deserted by many of his followers, who joined with the Romans in driving their king back north of the river.

The second phase, between CE 500 and 900, saw Slavic, Turkic, and other tribes on the move, resettling in Eastern Europe and gradually making it predominantly Slavic, and affecting Anatolia and the Caucasus as the first Turkic tribes ( Avars, Huns, Khazars, Pechenegs ), as well as Bulgars, and possibly Magyars arrived.

After the Huns in the 4th century invaded the territories of the Gothic King Ermanaric, which at its peak stretched between the Danube and the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea, thousands of Goths fled into the Balkans, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacking Rome in 410, while thousands of Germans were crossing the Rhine.

Having defeated the Huns at Chalons and at the Nedao, migrating Germanic tribes invaded the Western Roman Empire and transformed it into Medieval Europe.

In the late fourth century, the Huns invaded the Gothic region from the east.

While many Goths were subdued and joined the ranks of the Huns, a group of Goths led by Fritigern fled across the Danube and revolted against the Roman Empire, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Adrianople.

In the fifth and sixth centuries, the Goths separated into two tribes, the Visigoths, who became federates of the Romans, and the Ostrogoths, who joined the Huns.

After the Ostrogoths successfully revolted against the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 454, their leader Theodoric the Great settled his people in Italy, founding a Kingdom which eventually gained control of the whole peninsula.

Under pressure of the Huns, the chieftain Fritigern approached the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens in 376 with a portion of the Thervingi and asked to be allowed to settle with his people on the south bank of the Danube.

In the meantime, under Theodemir, the Ostrogoths broke away from Hunnic rule following the Battle of Nedao in 454, and decisively defeated the Huns again under Valamir at Bassianae in 468.

Before the invasion of the Huns the Gothic Chernyakhov culture produced jewelry, vessels, and decorative objects in a style much influenced by Greek and Roman craftsmen.

The unoccupied part of present Germany was invaded by the Huns at the end of the 4th century and led to the beginning of the Migration Period.

The Visigoths, for example, were converted to Arian Christianity around 360, even before they were pushed into imperial territory by the expansion of the Huns.

The Huns were a group of nomadic people who first appeared from east of the Volga River, and were first mentioned as Hunnoi by Tacitus.

Initially being near the Caspian Sea in 91 AD, the Huns migrated to the southeastern area of the Caucasus by about 150 AD and into Europe by 370 AD, where they established a vast Hunnic Empire there.

Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns, considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to investigating such a connection.

However, there is no scholarly consensus on a direct connection between the dominant element of the Xiongnu and that of the Huns.

Priscus mentions that the Huns had a language of their own ; little of it has survived and its relationships have been the subject of debate for centuries.

The Huns may have stimulated the Great Migration, a contributing factor in the collapse of the western Roman Empire.

Since Joseph de Guignes in the 18th century, historians have associated the Huns who appeared on the borders of Europe in the 4th century with the Xiongnu who migrated out of the Mongolia region some three hundred years before.

Due to the conflict with Han China, the Northern branch of the Xiongnu had retreated north-westward ; their descendants may have migrated through Eurasia and consequently they may have some degree of cultural and genetic continuity with the Huns.

The evidence for continuity between Huns and Xiongnu has not been definitive.

A school of modern scholarship instead uses an ethnogenetic, rather than essentialist, approach in explaining the Huns ' origin.

Arabs first reached the island between the seventh and ninth centuries, and a wave of Bantu-speaking East African migrants arrived around 1000 CE and introduced zebu, a type of long-horned humped cattle, which were kept in large herds.

These groups are normally kept separate by territorial males, which round up female herds that enter their territories and keep out the bachelors.

Ancient Egyptians kept herds of gazelles and addax for meat, and occasionally pets.

From about 1740, the Plains tribes rapidly adopted the horse, but the severe winters in the North kept their herds smaller than those of Plains tribes in the South.

At this time the Nama ( also known as Namaqua, Khoikhoi or Hottentots ) settled around the Orange River in the south on the border between Namibia and South Africa where they kept herds of sheep and goats.

It is supposedly named for the herds of livestock formerly kept there.

They pitched their yurt ( gher ) and kept their herds of cattle, flock of sheep, horses, donkeys and camels.

The city has 20, 000 drow inhabitants and hundreds of thousands of humanoid slaves that range from a variety of creatures such as goblins, kobolds, bugbears, duergar, svirfnebli, orcs, ogres, minotaurs, and giants, as well as herds of rothé kept as livestock.

Near Rhodes Memorial, some of the lower slopes of Devil's Peak are artificially maintained as savanna, and some herds of eland, wildebeest and zebra are kept there.

The breed are usually kept in herds, and are moved between mountain pastures in the summer and foothills areas in the winter.

Bluebucks followed the conventional territorial system among the Hippotragini or ' horse antelopes ': territorial bulls, herds of cows and calves, and bachelor herds which were kept segregated by the territorial bulls.

The former Mir of Hunza kept his herds of sheep and goats for grazing around here and used to visit the shrine every year.

White cattle ( often with black or red ears ) are believed to have been highly regarded in Britain and Ireland in very early times, and herds of white cattle were kept as ornamental and sporting animals in enclosed parks for many centuries.