Richard Cronin

To all those horse-lovers out there.

The Huns were forced out of their native lands east of the Caspian Sea due to a mega-drought, caused by powerful and sustained La Niña conditions.

"The first and worst megadrought took place around 360 AD, followed by a second decline starting in the 430s, reaching its driest period around 480.” Of course, with such powerful La Niña conditions, the Huns excelled with such dry hard ground, astride their small, nimble ponies.

https://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/did-a-megadrought-force-the-huns-to-invade-europe/

As the years passed, powerful El Niño conditions re-asserted and drenching rains flooded Europe. The small, nimble ponies of the Huns were mired in the mud. The Huns were forced to abandon them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2016/05/28/why-the-mongol-horde-retreated-from-europe/?sh=205f15ec38e4

The greatest Thoroughbred racers of the 20th Century were powerful "mudders” such as ‘Man ‘O War’ and ‘Citation’. They plowed their way thru the mud.

And so it was when the El Niño returned. The heavily-armored European knights rode astride their massive Purcherons, the best "mudder” as you could wish. Swinging their maces, the knights rode down upon the scattered Huns. The infantry, drawn from the farm boys of Europe, knew their terrain and the passable footpaths. They pursued with blood in their eyes. The slaughter was awful.

And so empires dissolve — due to the press upon the Earth of gravitational forces from planetary rotation, Solar tidal pumping, precession of the equinoxes, obliquity, orbital eccentricity, and planetary alignments.

The ancients knew of the movements of celestial bodies and so they had an inkling of how the heavens decided man’s fate.

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