[blam]

Christian Designs Found In Tomb Stones Of Eastern Han Dynasty

[68skylark]

Cool post.

On a semi-related topic, does anyone know the most current thinking about Marco Polo? I think I read somewhere that people who study these things aren't really sure now that Marco Polo really made the trip he's credited with -- I guess there's a little speculation that the records of his journey might be an exaggeration. Hopefully that idea has been disproved -- I like the idea that Marco Polo actually made his trip.

[antiRepublicrat]

Much of his diaries have survived

Does that get on anyone else's nerves? Where's the proofing for published articles these days?

[farmfriend]

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[Fedora]

Very interesting. I know the Romans established trade routes with China during the Han Dynasty (In its early periods, China had largely been isolated from the influences of other civilizations. This changed dramatically around the year AD 25 and the Later Han dynasty. Trade routes between China and India brought Buddhist missionaries and established the "Silk Road" that led to contact with societies as distant as the Roman Empire. . .166: Traders from the Roman Empire arrive in Tonkin ). I have independently found some evidence that Roman military training methods influenced the development of Chinese martial arts, so I've suspected there was other cross-cultural contact as well. Later in medieval times there is evidence of heretical Gnostic Christian influence on Taoist tradition.

[greenwolf]

"Sauma was the Mongol Empire's first envoy to Europe, just 50 years after Mongol armies were repulsed at the gates of Vienna."

Somebody is confusing Mongols with Turks here. There was nothing in Europe capable of repulsing the golden horde in 1240; Europe got lucky and the golden horde got recalled upon the death of Oktai Khan.

[SunkenCiv]

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The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo by Jacob D'Ancona tr by David Selbourne

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