In the third century BC a state of the Huns based on the Mongolian tribes took shape. The Huns controlled a vast territory that included Baigali Lake, dense forest taiga (today’s Siberia) in the north, reaching the Great Wall of China in the south, Korea in the east and II Tarvagatain mountain range in the west. Though historical chronicles and ancient historians did not recognize the Mongolian tribal union as a state, as it concerns the Huns’ political, economic, social relations system it could be viewed as the first state formation in the history of the Mongolian tribes.

In the third century BC a state of the Huns based on the Mongolian tribes took shape. The Huns controlled a vast territory that included Baigali Lake, dense forest taiga (today’s Siberia) in the north, reaching the Great Wall of China in the south, Korea in the east and II Tarvagatain mountain range in the west. 

Though historical chronicles and ancient historians did not recognize the Mongolian tribal union as a state, as it concerns the Huns’ political, economic, social relations system it could be viewed as the first state formation in the history of the Mongolian tribes.

The Huns constantly waged wars against their neighbors, and established a large center of civilization of the central Asian plains called the Empire of the Huns. Attila, king of the Huns, who founded the northern Hun state was one of the most successful invaders of the Roman Empire, notoriously called the “Scourge of the Gods”.

The history of mankind knows two lifestyles of civilization: settled and nomadic. With the creation of the Hun Empire, nomadic civilization emerged on the territory of what is now Mongolia.

During the reign of Modun the Hun empire was divided into three parts: its central part being under the direct command of the king, and the eastern and western parts, ruled by princes. Those three parts were then subdivided into units of ten thousand, one thousand, one hundred and ten. This new rational system of organization was later used by Genghis Khan when he founded the Mongol Empire .

During the period of the Huns, developments in the ethnic culture of Mongolian tribes, their arts, music, astronomy and astrology were greatly promoted and a twelve-month lunar calendar introduced.

Mongolian historians acknowledge that the Huns Empire was the first state formed in Central Asia, thus becoming a major center of nomadic civilization.