Voyages in World History, Volume 1, Valerie Hansen, Kenneth Curtis, Kenneth R. Curtis, Cengage Learning, 2008, ISBN 978-0-618-07723-6, ... Only the Xiongnu had an army sufficiently powerful to threaten the Han, and they tried to conquer Chinese ... The Xiongnu language is completely lost. The Chinese word Xiongnu may be a translation of the same word as the Latin word Hun ...
Encyclopedia of ancient Asian civilizationsArchived 2016-08-31 at the वेबैक मशीन, Charles Higham, Facts On File, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8160-4640-9, ... The first was that a royal Han princess should be sent to the Xiongnu in a marriage alliance. She should be accompanied by expensive gifts of silk and food, and the two states should be recognized as equals ...
The Turks in world historyArchived 2016-01-02 at the वेबैक मशीन, Carter V. Findley, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-517726-8, ... Part of the original rationale for dynastic marriages between Han princesses and the Xiongnu chanyu had been to create bonds of filial loyalty and obligation between steppe rulers and the Chinese emperor ...
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Encyclopedia of ancient Asian civilizationsArchived 2016-08-31 at the वेबैक मशीन, Charles Higham, Facts On File, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8160-4640-9, ... The first was that a royal Han princess should be sent to the Xiongnu in a marriage alliance. She should be accompanied by expensive gifts of silk and food, and the two states should be recognized as equals ...
The Turks in world historyArchived 2016-01-02 at the वेबैक मशीन, Carter V. Findley, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-517726-8, ... Part of the original rationale for dynastic marriages between Han princesses and the Xiongnu chanyu had been to create bonds of filial loyalty and obligation between steppe rulers and the Chinese emperor ...
