Uploaded by MILITARY HISTORY 2015. The Military History of Ancient Huns and Ancient Aztecs. Though the Huns are popularly imagined as mere bloodthirsty wild men, every detail of Hun battle was a finely ordered drill.
The Aztecs are one of the great Central American people who, through force, rose to become a major nation. Their warfare was heavily stylised but remarkably effective.
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The Huns were a nomadic people or peoples, who are known to have lived in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia between the 1st Century AD and the 7th Century.
Aztec starts at 23:41
The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries.
Much of what we know of ancient history is the history of militaries: their conquests, their movements, and their technological innovations. There are many reasons for this. Kingdoms and empires, the central units of control in the ancient world, could only be maintained through military force. Due to limited agricultural ability, there were relatively few areas that could support large communities, so fighting was common.
Weapons and armor, designed to be sturdy, tended to last longer than other artifacts, and thus a great deal of surviving artifacts recovered tend to fall in this category as they are more likely to survive. Weapons and armor were also mass-produced to a scale that makes them quite plentiful throughout history, and thus more likely to be found in archaeological digs. .