ABSTRACT
Some historians identify the Huns with the Hsiung-nu, the invaders who prompted the emperors of the Han dynasty to begin building the Great Wall in the third century b.c.e. In the first three centuries c.e., the Huns migrated from Turkestan, moving westward across what is now Russia to the Hungarian plain. In c.e. 372, they invaded the Volga River valley, displacing the tribes of Goths who lived there and spurring widespread migrations among the Germanic groups.
