Xiongnu
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The Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China. Chinese rulers tried a number of methods to ward off these "barbarians" as they called them, and finally succeeded in dispersing them in the 1st century A.D.
Sources
The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Bulliet et al, 2005.