Written By Clarissa O'Neil
You may know of the Huns from films such as Mulan or Night at
the Museum and his depictions as violent and barbaric were more that accurate. You think the name barbarian would give that away.
Nevertheless he was a very effective leader, between 445 and
453 he expanded his empire from, you guessed it, Hungary to Northern Italy at
which point his troops ran low on supplies and medicine, meaning after a lil’
chat with Pope Leo I he decided to go home and die, from apparently a nosebleed (allegedly, it's possibly it was caused by chronic alcoholism.)