Playing a super long game of 'play by mail'. But thats my 2 cents. Thanks for the vid. :)

Very good work...keep going,sorry for my bad English,i hope to be understand

In China west, A town name milan, people looks like Italians.

Please make a video about Parthian empire

@@stayrospaparunas3062 ... Your english is doing fine.

Yeah, the bloody three kingdoms fucked Han dynasty up before they made proper contact with Roman. Imagine what would have happened if they really did establish diplomatic ties.

alsouni Han Dynasty was actually fucked by the bureaucrats. The officials had too much power and the emperors in the late Eastern Han were all so young that they can’t do shit to those bureaucrats who just makes shit decisions. So it won’t be possible unless the empire wasn’t fucked by overpowered bureaucrats.

@@alexsolosm Probably nothing beyond trade and exchange of knowledge unfortunately. The distance is really just too far for either of them to impact each other to any great extent.

@@rosskeskin7563 They can both invade Parthia, and split the middle east and central Asia between the both of them Cutting out the middle man, then they can trade directly

Han was fucked by 10 dickless eunuchs

Ahh yes then in that case its an excellent description. Indeed, once dead they don't complain of the arrangement.

That interperetation of sucession is likely from when Nerva stepped down and died of old age after nominating Trajan.

It's obviously an impression he got from hearing of how caeser died.

There is significant difference on the understanding of Chinese Emperor and Roman Emperor. The Roman terms, Imperator, is more like President for Life instead of passing through the bloodline, which is of course something that neither the Chinese Emperor nor senior ministers/scholars would want to promote in China. Whoever wrote the text was touching the limit of treason.

@@cyrilchui2811 Or they simply either did not understand the system or never got that detail. They were writing down second-hand information that wasn't given to them by any form of intelligentsia most likely.

There was a story before about merchants who would lay out their goods on a beach in Africa then sail just off the coast, the natives would come out and pick what they wanted and left what they thought was a good trade. Then the merchants came back and collected the stuff. They never even talked.

@@OCinneide thanks for sharing this😉

Why would China hold up something as if those Europeans or whatever were something? 😂😂

@Caellum Kennedy I'd like a source for that, sounds interesting

Caellum Kennedy it’s the silent salt trade, I forgot which place in Africa is it although from what I last read there is still negotiations happening between, like if the other side find the trade deal unsatisfactory they would beat a drum to tell so.

Another happy landing!

And stealing silk.

Brian Xu Arabs: “I don’t think so”

Justinian definitely knew about the Chinese and sent spies to steal their silk worms by hiding silk worm eggs in a hollow walking stick. Silk production is what financed the Byzantine Empire for the next 800 years.

Brian Xu lmfao nice

*They got wool and we should take it

Chinese didnt care shit about Romans. Ancient Chinese were the most racist ethnic groups, they didnt give a fk about other ethnics lol

@@traydollaz5671 I wouldnt say they r the most rascist, bc EVERYONE was rascist back then if u have a large enough army.

@@h3nry_t122 wouldnt say the romans were racist, they discriminated against anyone they deemed a non-citizen or "barbarian" regardless of skin colour

@@brettvogel8418 In fact, we Chinese are also a combination of many nationalities. This was the case in the Han Dynasty. We also discriminate against groups that are not under the jurisdiction of the Empire.

Not just Wives like, History books said rich men also wear silk clothes. Even the middle-classes men wear silk as underwear. (Because Romans love bathing, they will show underwear to other Roman men in the public bath room)

Obviously, the Romans saw themselves as the most civilized nation on the planet. And to be fair, they did have plumbing, public heated baths and floor heating.

@@wardeni4806 so what youre saying is that every western nation that is descended from Roma gets a pass because it's inherited? SWEET! 🇺🇸

@@wardeni4806 considering china also had those but in the royal palace only. Every large empire thinks its the best thing since (pick famous thing from back then). Tho the Chinese also had gun powder first. I think its funny how the east always developed shit first but its always the west that steals the fame for it like gun powder, plumbing, and noodles.

@@yugitrump435 Well, there's a handful of nations that are descended from Romans and their culture, and still speak a latin-derived language.

China delenda est!

Destroyed in a purely defensive manner. Yup, defensive 😀

@@withastickangrywhiteman2822 what? Can you rephrase that? Or are you ESL?

Until the Mongols showed up....LOL!!!

arabia and china would be so much better if mongols didn't rise up

In today's Serbia they produced silk ...

silk is a china only.... who is middeman don't matter...

From what i can gather, silk was produced in ancient rome, however the quality of roman (european) silk was inferior compared to chinese silk, mostly because ancient chine found a way to make long strands of silk while ancient roman silk was short strands (they cut the coccon, making long strand silk impossible)

@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio why is that?

Rome had no silk, but they had several dyes China didn't had. Raw silk coming from China was often dyed in western colours, and then exported back in China, so fuelling the mith that Rome produced its own silk.

Collaborate!

Looking forward to your Atlantis video man. Hope it's well received

You two should make a family I MEAN make a video together sometime

Shit hahah I was beginning to think this was some kind oof joke from KZfaq

I wonder why no one does scythian relations to other civilizations.

I will never get enough info or speculation about their interactions!

the boys just want the next avengers like crossover

i guess it fascinates a lot of ppl how the world's two foremost great civilizations might have interacted. neither of them 'white' the anglos were insignificant then and will soon be insignificant again

Hmmm truth

@Serena Z effortless

@Avocado Toast nothing I assume

Imagine Joe Biden and ancient China.

@@mass1985 nah, imagine trump and ancient china

Can you imagine being a mere merchant and being able to blag that you have authority to make a trade deal with another empire?

On one hand, there’s the opportunity to make some profit. On the other hand, how do you suppose to verify the credibility of said merchants? Send a pigeon?

That "Merchant" is a big one, Happened to be the Ancient Persians

Tbf if i was those Chinese merchants back then and traveling to some supposedly real place far to the west, I would bang as many women as I could on the way there and back lmfao.

Biggus Dickus A brothel is an essential part of any bustling town.

Yes though the statement as presented would only be true if Bejing was at the antipode of Rome on the surface of the Earth which would place it a bit East of New Zealand 20000 km away. That said by this time there were already pretty good estimates of the size of the Earth at least in Europe and India was far from an isolated civilisation nor one lacking in well educated and informed scholars, philosophers and mathematicians of their own. Thus I would be inclined to suspect there is some hyperbole to the statement to emphasise the great distance rather than them being ignorant of the fact that the diameter of the Earth (12,750 km +/- a bit depending where you measure) is 1.57 times larger and the distance between antipodes over the surface (20,000 km with the same caveat) is 2.46 times larger .

Modern viewers: "Lol , ancients so dumb, they didn't even know where the center of the Earth was!" Also modern viewers: "ThE EaRTh iS FlaT."

Seraphina I’m really not sure what you’re getting at or why you’re talking about antipodes. I was praising the no name indian philosopher. He was right; the distance between the two empires was greater than the radius of the earth.

@@ThrillaWhale Except, that "no name Indian philosopher" didn't say that the distance between the two empires is greater than the radius of the Earth. He said that a rope stretching between those empires would go through the center of the Earth which isn't very close to the truth. It's still an impressive estimate, but you got it completely wrong.

Why measure distance from Rome to Beijing? Beijing wasn't even much of a city back then. The Chinese capital was in Luoyang at the time when Rome was relevant, and Chang'An (Xi'an) is the starting point of the Silk Road.

I disagree. Two vast and influencial powers would inevitably have become aware of one other. All it would take is for a tiny number of intrepid people to travel from one to the other for news to spread.

The ancient Romans and Chinese didn't know each other, but traded with the same people in Asia, so probably they were aware of one other. But the great distance kept them apart and they were only legends about which merchants told stories often heard by other merchants.

Benito Stalini Benito Stalini

It's not a miracle. People talk, and tells spread. The merchant routes that linked indirectly Rome to China were very intense

Benito Stalini this isn't true they did have contact

Romans who traded with Parthia who then probably traded with the kushans who then probably traded with the west Chinese who then traded further east.

There were Chinese items found in Rome as well. The lines of trade went through many hands and took years from start to finish.

@@MrAwrsomeness it's incredible how the social and economic networks humans create tend to be vast.

@Serena Zhang qua ora "cousins" nostra caret?

The Han Dynasty of China established the Silk Road and had contacts with the Roman Empire.

Probably quite a lot, but the same could be said for the Chinese considering how many times the Mongols and other nomadic tribes before them invaded unfortunately.

true

That's true for Chinese reports also. We often make the mistake of considering them an accurate and continuous collection of facts dating back to several millennia. In reality they are really sketchy and incomplete.

The Chinese had a fair share of book burnings by Emperors.

And a lot of Chinese buildings were destroyed by the succeeding dynasty, and the cultural revolution... I feel pain just thinking about that.

Hmmmmmm, very peculiar

west people lead west lives

Hmmmmm, This west is made out of west.

Coincidence..... I think not.

Kennan Dunn they created the meme before memes are a thing

holy shit that would be awesome

You mean a horde like faction like in the Belisarius campaign?

So... Roman invaded China? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

No, CA will let you buy every faction and map piece between Rome and Chine one by one as DLCs....sorry, I had to.

Fun fact: The Roman Emperor at 3K’s start date was not only Commodus, but he also got assassinated in the same year as Dong Zhou (192 BC)

I got that NOTIFICATION bud

@@randomdude9135 haha I feel like everyone did lol! I knew I had to do a video when I saw my brother and girlfriend watching it.

@@InvictaHistory cool. I love your videos. My country didn't teach me much world history. So keep up the great work!! :)

Where is your video on the accuracy of the Chinese source?

Make your what if Caesar vid already.

Maybe the Parthians didn't want to lose their role as a middleman between the two. Or even worse, what if Rome and China had formed an alliance?

@@TheSirBrainbug There is simply no way such an alliance would have worked or oppose a military thread. Communication and coordination between the two party's would have been nearly impossible. Look at it this way, the coordination between germany and japan in ww2 was so bare bones that it was almost completely irrelevant on a strategic level. If it was simply not possible for these two nations to coordinate their efforts in the 20th century, how would it work with two other country's almost 2000 years in the past (the distance between their capitals is comparable). Also ancient china had simply no reason to even consider wasting resources on a war efforts that far in the west.

MCoTEDDY no true empire ever wastes resources in attacking people across the world. Literally Genghis khan was a good general But he wasn’t by any means excellent And his nomadic horseman Had really conquered empty land and moslty farm lands and basically just empty lands The Mongolians aaren’t really true conquerors If they were They’d be like Rome and or China A empire that has a capital. Rome would never succeed in its offensive against China And China would never succeed against Rome Literally Too many mouths too feed and the distance is soo far China would collapse from itself While Rome would be holding its own territory And the others (like Gauls and Germanics would revolt But would be affected by the Chinese too) So would have to ally with Rome or be brought down individually. But that still is far fetched Chinese population was 53 million Too supply even a million people 1200 miles away on foot Would be not impossible but close

@@shadowdeslaar 'no true empire ever wastes resources in attacking people across the world. ' 21st Century America: 'Hold my beer, I see some WMDs that need freedom'

fludblud America is thousands of years apart from every empire Empires are older then Superpowers This the 21 century Were you can fly to eroupe in hours and sail to eroupe I’n weeks You can literally fly Back in the ancient eras They didn’t even know America existed They didn’t have the ability to launch nuclear missiles And America isn’t even building an empire We are attacking enemies we could easily crush in literally days But our government makes money if our wars Their wars Political wars I’m sorry But modern era doesn’t count As you can send a million men across the planet I’m literal days Of course I’m not saying your gonna be successful But no true empire attacks an enemy they know they can’t even reach This sounds dumb right Look at Napoleon He attacked Russia during winter He then would have to conquer all all of Russia So much land and territory It’s like mongols taking land with nobody in it Unlike Rome taking Gaul Land that flourished with people And territory that is so close They could climb the alps and view it Not when it’s just a whisper of a civilization Across several seas and thousands of miles of land For fuck sakes Hitler failed ww2 cause he attacked Russia during winter And had too TAKE THOUSAND miles of land Covered in freezing cold and being attacked by the native enemy Making his resources harder to get too and receive It’s called a Supply Train I’n the ancient world It was damn near impossible to supply yourself enough to conquer thousand miles of land and terrain In the modern era It’s made easier But still very hard And America hasn’t conquered shit Just making sure you get that America isn’t empire building If they were They’d be Expanding their empire Witch they aren’t

Yup

Thanks! 😁

At least he credits them

@@alexanderl3176 ? More like *@A LOSER* Jk bruh

Yes, many smart people knew it or at least suspected this from observing things like the horizon or lunar eclipses. The idea that everyone was a flat-earther is a recent myth. When Columbus was looking for finacial backers for his trip the argument was about the size, not the shape of the Earth. The Dominican scholars from University of Salamanca were pointing out that his crew will starve to death in their little boats before they reach China, and they were right about it. Fortunately for him there was another continent in the way. Now people think it was "visionary Columbus vs stupid Christian flat-earthers" when in fact it was a group of very smart but cautious scholars vs some ignorant guy who got incredibly lucky.

Everyone knew we only got stupider

@Vimar Espiras AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH PLEASE MAKE ME GO TO PRISON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Vimar Espiras AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

@@yellow13_ Most christians and pretty much every christian scholar in the Middle Ages knew that Earth was round. You're the one who appears to be idiotic by not knowing that.

No reason to be cruel if they arent fighting for reasources lands and people.

"Hey, another great empire, let's fuck over the guys in between us"

@@nkl7345 polish commonwealth here

You're right. If the two great empires could make friendly contact, perhaps the Roman Empire would learn from the unified thought of the Han Dynasty, so that Rome's vast territory would be unified for a long time and never perish. The Han Dynasty was able to learn the profound philosophy of Rome so that it would not be bullied by the colonists at sea after two thousand years of being strong.

Rome and China should have been allies and fight the world - except my country 🇵🇭

Imagine how it'd have went if the two empires managed to hold things together long enough to meet. Chinese gunpowder and compasses. Roman ships and sail. Put them together and you have the Age of Sail a thousand years earlier.

@@a_l7515 ahahah china already captured Philippine sea now 😂

Han China would be thrilled to encounter another great power and all the knowledge they could now learn. Ancient Rome would be thrilled to encounter a new civilization of barbarians to conquer and control.

Ibutisam Zuhair United States didn’t exist when the Roman Empire was a thing

@@jasonmason6910 sorta missed the joke lol.

I wouldnt have laughed if I didnt think he was capable of saying something close to this lol

Biggus Dickus ohhhh

Too bad the Chinese governemnt is erasing its own history to match its own views

but still !!! They will meet again !!!

Me too! Glad I had an opportunity to finally dive in!

Nice didn't know about this historian

Yeah I watched the video and was already itching to know the context. Glad to have been able to put together a context piece.

roads make a big difference, after all people still have to eat and drink which is heavy to carry. The cost to bring someone over would be the same as the cost for a small army.

No not really back then in Roman time you could easily walk from italy to Greece you need to look at the map when you play Rome total war

[IGC] Captain Haddock I wish that story were true

@@ericwang9348 its entirely possible that happened. Many legionnaires that survived Carrae stayed in parthia or were shipped elsewhere as slaves. We will never know for sure which is why its a theory and not fact. Denying theories outright prohibits future facts from being found.

They were probably greco-bactrians.

@VeroMithril gets weirder when you learn theyve found a roman bust of an emperor in south america from like 0 BCE/A.D.

@VeroMithril dude im not saying its not possible it was brought over at a later date. Im just saying they found one that's all. And it's probably from around Caesars time so yeah i exaggerated the age a bit.

JustSomeGuy they couldn’t even stop the Huns and you think they could stop the chinese lmaoo

@@mrxx7471 as if the Chinese could even get there

Nero Bernardino they could they just weren’t blood thirsty unlike the Europeans

@@mrxx7471 The logistics would have been hell. I seriously doubt the possibility of waging war so far away.

Mizzurani Friend smashed by the romans? Didnt they lose to the moors and the Huns? You fracking idiot. Europeans couldn’t even finish the crusades after trying for like a 1000 years. Meanwhile mongols smashed the Middle East In under a decade lmao

Cantonese is most likely Tang Mediaval Chinese, so yes, it's closer to Ancient Chinese than Bejing Mandarin for sure.

Same for most modern SE China dialects.

How do ancient Chinese know the earth is a "sphere"??? the correct way to translate "西域" is "the western area", thats all.

@@realchinese9834 Area in Chinese is more like 地方. "域" has a connotation of the universe

@@alexanderchenf1 地方 and 域 is the same thing unless you want to debate it literally, not sure I understand your saying about ""connotation", "but when translate into English language the difference between "地方" and “域” is just like the difference between "prime" and "major", but there is no way as you use "the western sphere" to describe 西域。

The competition would probably have made them both last longer

maybe interracial marriages between the noble classes.

@@greyngreyer5 shorter you mean. When two comparable powers fight for a long time, it drains them. That's how the Eastern Roman Empire got weakened due to their centuries long conflict with the Sassanids.

@@zippyparakeet1074 Well it depends what kind of relationship they'd be in. The Cold War saw both America and Russia tremendously progress in a technological sense. That is what I mean.

@@greyngreyer5 cold war is not all comparable. The historical precedent has been that any two similarly strengthed powers always go to war until the other is broken, the cold war has been a unique period in that regard since it never went hot due to the existence of nukes. Without nukes, there'd easily have been a world war 3. Hell, even the cold war nearly went hot a few times despite nukes. So you can't compare.

We are in talks over email about doing something like this in the future

@@InvictaHistory I hope you guys do I learned so much from you two and I love it having you two together can help expand all of our mindsets on the world by learning its past together

I just started bojack horseman 2 days ago, enough time to get the reference x)

Thanks! Definitely do spread the word around as it always helps : )

interesting. DO you recommend any book about it?

是的，中国历朝都有专门的史官来整理上一个朝代历史和记录本朝历史，这一过程皇帝是无法干预的，不会因为皇帝和其他官员的威胁而改写历史，所以总体来说，中国的史书非常详细且客观的。这一传统持续了接近两千年。而且，中国的史书对越南，朝鲜等邻国也有很详细的记载。

@@xian4957 lol, unfortunately, I don't read or speak Chinese, but if you have some references in English, that would be much appreciated

@@sabinoluevano7447 There are many kinds of history books in China. Which do you want? The translation of the official history handed down from ancient times or the complete collection of history summarized and compiled by modern people?

@@sabinoluevano7447 The official history of China is boring to read, and it takes perseverance to finish it, while the history summed up by modern people according to ancient books is easier for people to read.

I recommend checking out the Kings and Generals channel, if you haven't already. They have 3 videos that I think would definitely interest you - How Egypt financed Rome, Roman-Indian trade, and Roman-African trade - all about 15mins long.

The romans and Greeks definitely knew about Ethiopia

Asmoh they met .

@@sisi4361 Nope

"When two great nations... heard from a friend of a friend about each other"

China Rome and Sassanid empire had connection and met many years ago .Silk road is proof .The last Shah of Sassanid empire fled to Tang after the caliphate invasion .He died in Chang'an .Also there were a lot of Rome merchant in China at that time .

@@sisi4361 wrong.

I do briefly mention it towards the end of the video but did not find too much to be said.

@@InvictaHistory Cool! Can't wait for any content you upload tho because everything is presented fine and well informed!

周緒 @invicta you should see this

So Qin = West? And Da = ???

@@Sacrilege83 Da means big in general. In this context I'd guess it means the "further" west

Thom Al No that’s not true, China or the name 中國 was used since the Zhou dynasty, the concept of China was already founded in the Shang dynasty. The idea that China never existed until the 20th century was in fact a propaganda created by the Chinese communist government, because the communist party promotes the multiethnic “Chinese nation” which was founded by the Qing dynasty and not the original Chinese nation that was homogeneously Han Chinese only. People often confuse the later multiethnic Chinese nation with the original Han Chinese nation. Yes the modern/multiethnic Chinese nation was founded in the 20th century(to stabilise the Manchu rule over multiple ethnicities within their empire). But the Han Chinese identity of China existed since the founding of our earliest civilisation. Do you seriously believe that we Han Chinese a nation with at least 30 million population since the Han dynasty, did not have a concept of who we are? Do you know why the Han Chinese rebels from both northern and southern China during the Mongol Yuan dynasty claimed to restore the “Song Dynasty” and not the Jurchen Jin or Khitan Liao Dynasty? Did you know their slogan was “驅逐(expel)韃虜(nomad savages)恢復(restore)中華(China)”? Because we Han Chinese had a strong sense of nationalism and awareness of our national identity. This slogan was RE-used during the Xinhai revolution by the nationalist Chinese revolutionary army against the Manchu Qing dynasty.

周緒 damn dude you tell them!!!

Leaders keep dying

@Serena Z But hey, if it weren't for this they wouldn't have discovered gunpowder

I guess you meant Persians

Who knew pliny was such a SJW!

Trade went through intermediaries as discussed in the video sure of course some information would flow with that but like the video points out this is a long distance game of telephone and things get muddied along the way especially when you have multiple language translations along the way also.

Anush Ghosh pretty positive it’s music from Rome 2. No idea what the song name is though.

@@Sonofanoob link, if any? Kinda reminds me of the bridge from The Night Sky by Mostly Autumn.

The song is called deployment

@@Sonofanoob thank you! I'll look for it then!