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Background: The Xiongnu

Pastoral nomadic people wandering in search of grazing lands for their herds of horses, cows and sheep, this people has its origins in North East of Ordos desert, living along both shores of Yellow River. Xiongnu had no walled cities and did not engage in agriculture. The men were formidable warriors, trained from an early age to hunt on horseback with bow and arrow.
Xiongnu Empire was the first of its kind on the Eurasian steppe, and serves as a seed for the rising of the Mongol Empire. The Ordos was an important gathering point for the various pastoral peoples of Inner Mongolia, and it is more accurate to describe the Xiongnu as a confederacy of these various groups rather than a single, unified culture.
Though the Han continued to hold the Xiongnu and their nomadic way of life in disdain, they could not ignore the very real military threat they posed to the chinese Han Empire. To avert continued hostilities, the Han court was forced to maintain marital ties with the shanyu and offer annual tribute of silk, wines, rice and other foodstuffs.

Story: Unifying the tribes

In an attempt to mentain peace, the Touman Chanyu (great king of Xiongnu) sent his son as hostage to Yuezhi tribes. When he grew up strong enough the son managed to escape and returned back to his homelands, with only purpose to unify all nomad tribes and to build a strong Empire to rule over all Asian continent. One day the young Chanyu was recognized as Great Khan by the leaders of many tribes in Central Asia. His power grew rapidly over the steppes. The Great Khan refused to marry the daughter of Chinese Han Emperor, instead he followed his heart taking as wife the Miao Princess, forming this way a new alliance against the Chinese who were refusing lately to pay the anual tribute and started to build the Great Wall, a clear sign that they will turn against the Xiongnu. Kaghans of different tribes disapproved this marriage from the start but in the end they were forced to accept it.
The young Chanyu, The Great Khan, was undefeated even by the First Emperor Qin  and later the Han. It is also known that the Chanyu lived to see the demise of the Qin and in fact annexed lands of the Qin and Han Empires.