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Did Romans know China?

 
 
Reply Sat 3 Jan, 2015 04:06 am
And more generally, since when Europeans know that country?
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Reply Sat 3 Jan, 2015 05:04 am
Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europeans_in_Medieval_China

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Reply Sat 3 Jan, 2015 06:21 am
@contrex,
Europeans might have know China - or Chinese might might known Europe - perhaps already since the Bronze Age it is thought by historians: Tarim mummies. And "China's first foreign worker" helped creating the terracotta army mausoleum (either as slave or employee).
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