Posted on 04/08/2007 6:41:47 PM PDT by blam
Just pictures.
You mean - international trade wasn’t invented by Al gore?
Why, of course, it was. He trailblazed the Silk Road and pioneered the trade in tea, silk and spices.
George Bush’s fault.
Hmmm....
now finally i know why roman empire collapsed
their manufacturing was destroyed by outsourcing to China
It would actually be Greek Stlye columns, but those are just details I suppose. But Hellenistic Culture probably spread the columns to China before Rome. Rome wasn’t even outside of Italy and into Asia until 133 B.C.
To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.Romans In China?This idea was first proposed by Homer Hasenphlug Dubs, an Oxford University professor of Chinese history, who speculated in 1955 that some of the 10,000 Roman prisoners taken by the Parthians after the battle of Carrhae in southeastern Turkey in 53 B.C. made their way east to Uzbekistan to enlist with Jzh Jzh against the Han. Chinese accounts of the battle, in which Jzh Jzh was decapitated and his army defeated, note unusual military formations and the use of wooden fortifications foreign to the nomadic Huns.
by Erling Hoh
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...darn Chinamen will knock off ANYthing, it seems...!!!
“now finally i know why roman empire collapsed”
...yeah, China STOLE their columns.
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Romans in China?
Archaeology | Volume 52 Number 3, May/June 1999 | Erling Hoh
Posted on 07/18/2004 8:43:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Roman Legion Founded Chinese City
Ansa | 7-25-2005
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Romans May Have Learned From Chinese Great Wall: Archaeologists
People’s Daily Online/Xinhua | 12-20-2005
Posted on 12/20/2005 12:59:10 PM EST by blam
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Multiplication Table From 1,800 Years Ago Discovered In Hunan
Peoples Daily | 3-9-2004
Posted on 03/09/2004 7:04:42 PM EST by blam
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Bricks With Molded Designs Unearthed In Chongqing (Caucasians in Ancient China)
Xinhuanet.com/China View | 1-12-2004
Posted on 01/12/2004 12:28:45 PM EST by blam
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Nestorian Tablet in China
Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Fordham University | July1998 | ed Paul Halsall
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Ancient Engraved Chessboards Found On Great Wall
People’s Daily - Xinhua | 6-5-2006
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Tamil Trade
INTAMM | 1997 | Xavier S. Thani Nayagam
Posted on 09/11/2004 11:07:01 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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thats even funnier
The Conquest of GreeceGreek forces also became involved in the campaigns of the Punic Wars, setting the stage for future conflicts with Rome. The most important episode occurred during the Second Punic War (218-207 B.C.). Campaigning in Italy, the Carthaginian leader Hannibal allied with Philip V of Macedonia, then the most powerful ruler in the Balkans, to protect supply lines from North Africa. Rome responded by supporting Philip's many enemies in the Balkans as they fought the First Macedonian War (215-213 B.C.), which expanded Roman interests into the Balkans. In the Second Macedonian War (200-197 B.C.), Rome's first major military expedition into the Greek world met with brilliant success. Philip lost all his territory outside Macedonia, and the victorious commander Flamininus established a Roman protectorate over the "liberated" Greek city-states. The fortunes of Greece and Rome were henceforth intertwined for about the next 500 years.
GoGreece.comRise of RomeWars with the Greeks started because the Hellenistic kings in Greece had helped Hannibal. To get back at the kings, the Romans declared the Greek city-states "free" - i.e. free of Macedonia - and intervened to put this into effect. When Greek cities don't show proper gratitude, the Romans conquer them. 146 BC was the most dramatic year - Romans destroyed two ancient cities - Corinth and Carthage - in the same year, killing or enslaving their populations, ripping down the buildings, and declaring the land unfit for habitation... By the end of the 1st century BC, all the territory which rings the Mediterranean sea was Roman... the Romans gradually turned the people they had conquered into Romans... The Romans conquered the Greeks - but the Greeks ended up influencing Roman culture far more than Roman culture influenced Greek. In the 3rd and 2nd centuries, Greek intellectuals (and in 2nd and 1st c slaves) poured into Rome. The Romans adopted Greek literary genres (drama, epic poetry, history), Greek philosophy (Stoicism, Epicureanism), Greek art, Greek social life (like public baths, gyms, theatres), even Greek food and sexual practices (homosexual romance became acceptable in upper class circes). Even the shape of Roman houses became more Greek... addition of Greek peristyle. A few conservative Romans tried to resist the Hellenizing trend - but they failed. A truly "Graeco-Roman" culture was formed.
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that’s a curve ball.
i was not thinking about that tonight!
To the west yes, but it wasn’t until 133B.C. that Rome inherited her first province in Asia (The Former Kingdom of Pergamum centered around Ephesus and Miletus). By 200 B.C. Rome was in Illyria and Spain and Africa, but they hadn’t crossed to the East. Thus the influence in Asia would have been from Hellenistic Greece. That was my point. Rome was still a western power, not a world power yet as Carthage had just been defeated guaranteeing Roman dominance of the Mediterranean.
I think this better explains the situation. Caucasians were there before the Chinese.
On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang
"This group is called "Proto-European" by Mair and Mallory, and it can be dated to have arrived in Xinjiang about 1800 B.C.E. or somewhat earlier. "
Rome wasn’t even outside of Italy and into Asia until 133 B.C.That is definitely not the case, I'd guess you meant, outside of Europe.
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