Most of our modern people's understanding of ancient times is through some historical knowledge learned and tv dramas we have watched. Friends who often look at ancient history know that China has experienced so many dynasties, most of the time it will be troubled by other countries, such as a variety of different tribes, for nomadic peoples, not only strong fighting ability, culture is also more barbaric.
For thousands of years, several of the more powerful nomadic peoples were the Turks, Huns, Mongols, and Khitans, who lived on the steppes for a long time, relying on cattle and sheep to survive and develop the economy. In the grasslands, the production of horses is also very high, and many horses are used in the war military, so whenever foreign tribes harass, they have to spend a lot of manpower and materials to fight.
It is precisely because the nature of these nomadic peoples is relatively similar, resulting in many people can not distinguish them, in fact, it is easier to distinguish, first from the timeline to distinguish.
According to the "Records of History", the initial Xiongnu did not actually develop and grow, their ancestors were descendants of the Xia Hou clan, and the monarch Xia Jie fled to other places after experiencing the fall of the dynasty. It formed a tribe with Shanrong, Fuyun, and Xuan Congee, and eventually formed the settlement of the Xiongnu tribe located in the Mongolian plateau, and finally grew stronger and stronger.
After a long time, the Xiongnu also discovered the drawback, that is, their materials were very scarce, and the grasslands could provide few ways to survive except for cattle, sheep and horses. Over time, they began to think of "robbery", that is, to attack the Central Plains. During the Qin Dynasty, the ambitions of the Xiongnu were unsuccessful and they lost the battle, when the Qin Dynasty sent Meng Tian, who had a lot of combat experience, and the two sides opened a gap in strategy, and the Xiongnu were successfully driven out of Hetao.
The Turks were actually a branch of the Huns, which appeared later than the Huns, and at first the wars within the nomadic peoples were fierce. Later, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Rouran's power on one side developed relatively strongly, so he started to attack northern Wei.
The strength of the Northern Wei was also relatively strong, so it caused some damage to Rouran, at the same time. There are also other tribes in the grassland who are eyeing Rouran, who is almost in a state of internal and external troubles, and the war between multiple tribes has caused everyone to die and break the net.
At this time, the Turks, who had been secretly observing, began to reap the power of the fisherman, and when Rouran and Tiele were both defeated, he struck another fatal blow and successfully destroyed Rouran. In the long history that followed, the Turks gradually developed internal contradictions, and the powerful tribes began to disintegrate.
After talking about the Xiongnu and turks, let's analyze the Khitan again. The Khitans were similar in nature to the Xiongnu and Turks, and were all nomadic peoples. Only from the timeline, the Khitan only arose during the Tang Dynasty, because in the previous hundreds of years, the Turkic power was very strong, so that the Khitan could not resist.
With the development of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan decided to submit to the Tang Dynasty, but only temporarily, and their ambitions were also very large. Surrender is because there was no power at the beginning, so you need a backing that you can rely on to give yourself the opportunity to develop secretly.
The rulers of the Tang Dynasty also understood that nomadic peoples had been a hidden danger since ancient times, and they could not sincerely submit, so for the next period of time, the two sides were in a state of war and time.
Friends who know history know that although the Khitan later established the Liao State, the final development was still getting weaker and weaker, and the country was destroyed by the Jurchens. The Khitan were also scattered, some were fused, and some re-established a tribe of their own, which was no longer enough to be afraid.
After the Khitan is Mongolia, presumably everyone is not unfamiliar. Mongolia's development is very strong, and many elites have been born in it, and Genghis Khan was born in a family in Mongolia. Because of his outstanding ability, Genghis Khan was elected as the Khan of the Mongol Beggars in 1189, and the tribe later expanded its territory under the leadership of Genghis Khan.
He first solved the problem of multiple forces within Mongolia, and after unifying the tribes of the Mongolian plateau, established the Mongolian state. After many conquests, it occupied a large area of the Jin Dynasty in East Asia, and destroyed the Western Xia, Western Liao, and Central Asian Flower Thorn Mold, and even expeditions to Eastern Europe.
He is also a highly controversial hero, and his reputation has spread all over the world. Genghis Khan's large-scale conquests also expanded the land of later China, merging many ethnic tribes and countries.
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