flourishing" of the Racenna cities of their 

hinterland started to decline from the fifth 

century before our era. With Greek help 

the Romans won Racenna in the sea 

battle of Cumae in -474; after this defeat 

the Racenna gave up. They considered 

one nation's win is another nation's loss, 

the two neutralize one another, and the 

overall result is zero that meant no 

progress. If only the Racenna (Etruscans) 

decided to fight on, we might have never 

known anything about the Roman Empire 

today. The Racenna (Etruscans) were the 

Indigenous people of Italy; well, later the 

Italic Latins succeeded little better and 

overpopulated their land. 

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                         Attila  

  Many ignorantly believe that Attila 

was a man born into the world to shake 

the nations, "the scourge of all lands". 

Most ignorant writer indeed, has even 

gone so far as to suggest that Attila was 

"Scourge of God". Who in some way 

terrified all mankind by the dreadful 

rumors noised abroad concerning him 

and the Huns. He, as all Huns and all 

other Hephthalites, looked different and 

lived different than any known peoples 

of that time in the world. The reason for 

Attila's bad image was due to the 

anti-Hun propaganda that the envious 

political and religious organizations had 

been spreading throughout the Chinese, 

Roman and Turk Empires. Ironically, all 

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