Xiongnu - Wikipedia
网页The Xiongnu (Chinese: 匈奴, [12] [ɕjʊ́ŋ.nǔ]) were a tribal confederation [13] of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Eurasian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD. Modu Chanyu, the supreme leader after 209 BC, founded the Xiongnu Empire. [14]
Xiongnu | People & History | Britannica
网页2024年8月31日 — Xiongnu, nomadic pastoral people who at the end of the 3rd century bce formed a great tribal league that was able to dominate much of Central Asia for more than 500 years.
Han–Xiongnu Wars - Wikipedia
网页The Han–Xiongnu Wars, [5] also known as the Sino–Xiongnu War, [6] was a series of military conflicts fought over two centuries (from 133 BC to 89 AD) between the Chinese Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation, although extended conflicts can be traced back as early as 200 BC and ahead as late as 188 AD.
Timeline of the Xiongnu - Wikipedia
网页This is a timeline of the Xiongnu, a nomadic people that dominated the ancient eastern Eurasian steppes from 209 BC to 89 AD. The Xiongnu settled down in northern China during the late 3rd century AD following the Three Kingdoms period, and founded several states lasting until the Northern Liang was conquered by the Xianbei Northern Wei in 439 …
Xiongnu - New World Encyclopedia
网页The Xiongnu (Chinese: 匈奴; pinyin: Xiōngnú; Wade-Giles: Hsiung-nu); were a nomadic people from Central Asia, generally based in present day Mongolia and China. From the third century B.C.E. they controlled a vast steppe …
Xiongnu - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
网页The Xiongnu (Chinese: 匈奴) were a group of nomads who lived north of China from the 3rd century BC to the 460s AD. Their lands were infertile, so they often attacked China. To stop these attacks, the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, built the Great Wall of China between 214 and 206 BC.
Ancient DNA reveals secrets of empire that pushed China to build …
网页2023年4月17日 — Known as the Xiongnu, the empire saw conflict with great rival imperial China that resulted in the construction of the Great Wall, parts of which still stand today.
Overview of the Xiongnu Nomads - ThoughtCo
网页2019年11月23日 — Xiongnu was a multi-ethnic nomadic grouping from Central Asia which existed between about 300 BCE and 450 CE. Pronunciation: "SHIONG-nu" Also Known As: Hsiung-nu. The Great Wall. The Xiongnu were based in what is now Mongolia and frequently raided south into China.
DNA shows poorly understood empire was multiethnic with strong …
网页2023年4月28日 — The Xiongnu, contemporaries of the peoples of ancient Egypt and Rome, dominated the Mongolian steppe from about 200 B.C. to 100 A.D. These horseback nomads proved innovative in warfare, but historians know little about the inner workings of their culture because the Xiongnu never developed a formal writing system.
Xiongnu | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
网页The Xiongnu were an Inner Asian people who formed an empire, a state entity encompassing a multiethnic, multicultural, and polyglot population. The ruling elite of this empire were, for the most part, pastoralists. However, the empire also possessed a substantial agrarian base.