匈奴统治西域述论

On Huns' Control over the Western Regions

公元前2世纪至公元2世纪,因定居农耕文明与草原游牧文明的矛盾、冲突、碰撞而引发的战争,从东向西逐步展开,西域成为了汉朝与匈奴争夺的重要战场。双方斗争的结果,汉朝统一西域,匈奴一部分归汉,一部分远迁欧洲。比较双方的西域政策,区别不大。匈奴之所以失败,主要是因为制度落后、综合国力弱、内部分裂以及掠夺性的经济政策所致。但是,匈奴在西域的活动,使那些孤立的民族和地区开始互相接近,促进了他们之间的经济文化交流,改变了西域乃至中亚居民迁徙的方向,为汉朝统一西域创造了条件。

From the 2^(nd)century B. C. To the 2^(nd)century A. D.,the wars caused by the contradictions,conflicts and collisions between sedentary agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization broke out successively from east to west and the Western Regions became an important battlefield between the Han Dynasty and the Huns. The consequence of these struggles was that the Han Dynasty unified the Western Regions and part of the Huns surrendered to the Han and the rest moved westward to the Europe. The comparison of their policies in the Western Regions shows little difference. The reasons of the Huns' lost lied in their backward social system,weak national strength,internal split and predatory economic policy. However,the Huns' activities in the Western Regions initiated the contact of the separated ethnic groups and regions,promoted the economic and cultural exchanges among them,changed the migration direction of the inhabitants in the Western Regions and the Central Asia,and created conditions for the Han Dynasty's unification of the Western Regions.