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Sino-Roman relations comprised the (primarily indirect) contacts and flows of trade goods, information, and occasional travelers between the Roman Empire and the Han dynasty, as well as between the later Eastern Roman Empire and various successive Chinese dynasties that followed. These empires inched progressively closer to each other in the ...
Hypothetical Sino-Roman contact [ edit ] A hypothesis by the Sinologist Homer H. Dubs , according to which Roman legionaries clashed with Han troops during the battle and were resettled afterwards in a Chinese village named Liqian , [ 9 ] has been rejected by modern historians and geneticists on the grounds of a critical appraisal of the ...
Gan Ying. Gan Ying (Chinese: 甘英; pinyin: Gān Yīng; fl. 97 CE) was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and military official who was sent on a mission to the Roman Empire to find out more about it in 97 CE by the Chinese military general Ban Chao. [1]
The time of the Han dynasty (202 BC–AD 220) was a groundbreaking era in the history of Imperial China's foreign relations, during the long reign of Emperor Wu of Han (r. 141–87 BC), the travels of the diplomat Zhang Qian opened up China's relations with many different Asian territories for the first time. While traveling to the Western ...
Political map of the Eastern Hemisphere in AD 200. Comparative studies of the Roman and Han empires is a historical comparative research involving the roughly contemporaneous Roman Empire and the Han dynasty of early imperial China. At their peaks, both states controlled up to a half of the world population [1] and produced political and ...
Daqin (Chinese: 大秦; pinyin: Dàqín; Wade–Giles: Ta 4-ch'in 2; alternative transliterations include Tachin, Tai-Ch'in) is the ancient Chinese name for the Roman Empire or, depending on context, the Near East, especially Syria. [1]
Pages in category "Sino-Roman relations" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In 166 AD the Book of Later Han records that Romans reached China from the maritime south and presented gifts to the court of Emperor Huan of Han (r. 146–168 AD), claiming they represented Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Andun 安敦, r. 161–180 AD). [42] [43] There is speculation that they were Roman merchants instead of official ...