How Did Rome and China Meet
From About the Beginning of the First Century to About the End of the Third Century Ad, the Four Great Empires of Eurasia Were in Contact with Each Other...
From about the beginning of the first century to about the end of the third century AD, the four great empires of Eurasia were in contact with each other through the Silk Road. Between China (which was ruled by the Han dynasty from 202 BC to 220 AD) and Rome, there were the Parthian and Kushana empires.
Did the Chinese and Romans ever meet?
Han-Roman relations comprised the (mostly indirect) contacts and flows of trade goods, of information, and of occasional travellers between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire of China, as well as between the later Eastern Roman Empire and various Chinese dynasties.
What brought Romans and Chinese into contact?
After Chang Ch’ien’s trip to the west, the regular traffic began along the Silk Road, on which goods – above all China’s silk – were carried across Asia, finally reaching the Roman Empire.
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