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Question: Did Atilla the Hun have any connections to Genghis Khan?

I am not familiar with both of these people in history, i donot even know if they met or fought each other also, but since obviously they are Chinese, are they relatives? You will probably tell me they are born in different time zone with each other. So they didnot met personally.

Who is more great between them in terms of conquest and mayhem? Khan or Atilla?

Answer: Where on earth did you get the idea that Attila was Chinese?

Attila the Hun was born in approximately 406 AD to the ruling Hun family, his uncle being the king over the nomadic people that had already reached the out skirts of the Roman Empire in the late 4th century. Not much is known about Attila's childhood other than he could shoot a bow while straddling a horse, a leg mounted in each stirrup. (The invention of the stirrup gave the Huns the advantage over those they conquered.) Attila was obviously a sly hustler who took advantage of his athletic prowess and his political connections.

More about him

http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b3atilla_p1dz.htm

http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/hwr18.htm

http://www.boglewood.com/timeline/attila.html

Gen ghis Khan's biography is here:

http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h11mon.htm

http://www.accd.edu/sac/history/keller/Mongols/empsub1.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/genghis-khan

As you will notice he was born much after Attila, so there is no physical connection between them but you might say they had the same or similar drive to conquer the world.

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