Mete Han's Death and the Period of Tanhu Ki-Ok (174-160 B.C.)  

       When Mete Han died 174 B.C. the historical known Turkish political organisation, the "Great Hun Empire" was, with his civil and military organisations, with his religion, his army and war technique, with his arts being a high qualified society that also was a sample for over centuries for the Turkish States, on top of his strength. Mete Han's son Tanhu Ki-ok (174-160 B.C.) tried to protect this grandeur. At the same time when the Yue-chi who were abandoned from their lands, had finished the Greek sovereignty that was formerly founded by Alexander in the region of Baktria in Afghanistan (166 B.C.), Ki-ok had entered China with his crowded army and burnt down the emperors palest near the capital Ch'ang-an.

 

       This time he made the wrong step to continue his peaceful commercial contacts to China: He married a Chinese princess and with this he opened a new way bearing negative consequences for almost all the Turkish governments that in future came to contacted China. Because the approach between the dynasties always was an opportunity for the Chinese fraud mechanism to get active.

 

       Chinese diplomats and officers who took advantage of the existence of the Chinese princess in the Hun centre, freely walked over the lands of the Hun empire, started propaganda among the Turkish and natural tribes, and tried underhandedly to break the power of the empire. Besides, the among the Hun sophisticated class very much demanded Chinese silk that was also brought in as commercial good was about to increase lethargy by ways of luxury.