pyotr filipivich wrote:

The Mongols, circa 13th century, came from Mongolia. They took
China. They took, sacked, Baghdad. They sacked Kiev on the way
_home_ from central Europe. At one point, the Mongol Empire covered
90 degrees of the Eurasia land mass - Kiev to the East China Sea.

The Huns were different a different mob. Attila "the scourge of
God" threatened Rome in the 6th Century. By then the Roma Empire in
the west was moribund.

The Turks (Seljuks, house Osmali - the Ottomans) came out of
central Asia, finished off the Roman empire (Constantinople) with aid
from the Venetians. 1543 and all that. A hundred years later _they_
besieged Vienna, lost, and the croissant roll was invented.


Their blinds were invented much later. ;-)