On The Gallic War In The 451 A. D. And The Historical Influence Of It On The Huns

The Gallic War in the 451 A. D. was a typical example of the violent conflict between the nomads in the northern Eurasia and the farming peoples in the south during the Migration Period in the Eurasia. It concentrated the violent conflict not only between the two nations, but also between the two kinds of lifestyles, between the two kinds of values. This war was the extreme and violent conflict between the Huns, who was in the process that gradually tended to mix into the Roman society, as the leader during the nomads in the Mediterranean region lastly, and the Roman Empire as the representative of the farming peoples in the Mediterranean. It was an important turning point in the history of the Huns. This war was the miniature not only of the violent conflict between the nomads represented by the Hunnic Empire and the farming peoples represented by the Roman Empire, but also of the Period of the migration in the Eurasia and the great transformation of the Mediterranean World.This paper mainly included three parts:In the first part, the causes of the Gallic War in the 451 A. D. were discussed. The fundamental cause of this war was the contradiction between that the Huns firmly entrenched their nomadic tradition, and that they would accept the Roman culture. Attila's ambition and the letter written by Honoria for marriage provided the necessary conditions for this war, and they were the immediate causes of this war.In the second part, the process of the Gallic War in the 451 A. D. was discussed. This war was the accumulation in the Europe of the contradiction between the nomadic world and the farming world, and it was the extreme and violent conflict between the two worlds. Simultaneously, this war was the miniature of the Period of the migration in the Eurasia and the great transformation of the Mediterranean World. The failure of the Huns in this war, symbolized the end of the expansion to the Mediterranean region of the Huns who represented the nomadic culture in the Eurasian steppe, and it symbolized the end of the extreme and violent conflict in the Europe between the nomadic world and the farming world.In the third part, the historical influence to the Huns of the Gallic War in the 451 A. D. was discussed. After this war, the Hunnic Empire disintegrated. The Huns were divided into two parts: the main part of the Huns entered into the Roman Empire, and finally tended to mix into the Roman society; the residual parts of the Huns stayed at the steppe in the eastern Europe, and firmly entrenched their nomadic tradition. The Huns, as an integral power, gradually withdrew the historical stage of the Mediterranean World. The conversion that Huns gradually accepted the Roman culture and tended to mix into the Roman society, actually reflected that one nation, which separated from the geographical environment rooting its own culture, was inevitably assimilated by other nations owning to entering into other geographical environment rooting other culture during the Migration Period.