Multiple choice general knowledge history

Which barbarian leader was halted in his advance on Rome following an indecisive Battle at Chalons in 451?

  1. Alaric the Visigoth

  2. Attila the Hun

  3. Hannibal

  4. Walla King of the Goths
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Explanation

Attila the Hun was halted by the combined forces of the Roman general Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I at the Battle of Chalons (also called the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains) in 451 AD. Though indecisive, it stopped Attila's invasion of Gaul. Alaric the Visigoth sacked Rome in 410, Hannibal was a Carthaginian general from much earlier (2nd century BCE), and 'Walla' is not a known historical figure - likely a typo for someone like Vandal king Genseric who later sacked Rome in 455.

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