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It depends on what you mean by Asian.
The Huns were group of pastoral nomads originating from an area in Central Asia know as the Steppe or Eurasian Steppe it is the world's largest grassland and an exceedingly harsh climate with temperatures ranging from 120 degrees F in the summer to -60 degrees F in the winter.
As to the ethnicity of the Huns it is very hard to tell weather or not the Huns would be considered east Asian or Oriental, as the term is used today. Most tribes from the steppe, of which the Huns were one, were not ethnically homogeneous, they often included Turkic peoples, east Asian people, and Persian peoples, to name only a few... in addition to that it is interesting to note that Chinese writers from the Hun's period, and earlier, describe people living on their borders that sound almost Nordic ie., tall, fair skinned people, with sometimes blonde hair, and sometimes green or blue eyes.
The point being it's difficult to tell, with any accuracy, what ethnicity may have composed the Huns.
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SteveThe most compelling evidence is the account of history between the Han people and their age-old confrontation with the Hun people, which at the height of warfare between Hans and Huns (a.k.a. Han-Hun Wars, or Sino-Xiongnu Wars), recount "massed mounted infantry and cavalry, driving the Huns far west of Beihai (Lake Baikal)... " --- Sima Qian, Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian) It would be over 500 years later, that the most notable "Hun" of them all, as recorded in European history, Attila the Hun, whose only known documented account of his physical appearance, describes him as a man "short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin." --- Jordanes, 6th Century Roman Chronicler (citing Roman diplomat Priscus)
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When did the huns die out?
the huns died out around the 500's
Who destroyed the Gupta dynasty?
The Invasion of the Huns
Did the Huns use and irrigation system?
yes, the Huns used an irrigation system to get water.
Could there be an ancient connection between the Huns and the Inuit?
A connection, yes, but long before they became Huns and Inuit.The Huns spoke a Turkic language which has connections with some of the people of western China and Siberia; the ancestors of the Inuit migrated to North America from Siberia but they have a completely different language.It is reasonable to say that the far distant ancestors of the Inuit could have been closely related to the far distant ancestors of the Huns, but also the ancestors of the Ainu, the Chinese, the Koreans and many other later Asian peoples.We are taking about a time long before the last Ice Age, before any of these groups had formed.
What modern nation is named for Attila's people?
Hungary was named for the Huns.
