Exchange between the Chinese Han Dynasty and Rome, the Great East-West Empire.

 The Roman emperor dispatched envoys to the Han Dynasty.> Around the 1st century A.D., the most developed empires were flourishing in the East and West since human history began. The Han Dynasty and Rome are them. Although tens of thousands of miles away, was there any contact between them? According to the records, they not only knew each other's existence, but also had traffic of trade goods and human traffic. Since the west side of China was surrounded by the Pamir Plateau and other mountains, the Chinese were reluctant to go west beyond that. It was taken as a warning from heaven to stop the slow down of mountain soldiers that occur when crossing the mountain range. However, there was still a Chinese who could not suppress curiosity.  It's Gamyeong. At the time of the generous talk (97 AD), Gamyeong, who was dispatched as an envoy to Daejin (the name then referred to by the Chinese as Rome), arrived in Babylon.  And I was about to cross the sea to go to Daejin, but boatmen from Partia, the empire of Central Asia, stopped me. "The sea is vast. It takes two years if you don't meet a fair wind. Moreover, this sea has already killed several people by making humans suffer from the disease of oblivion." Here, Gamyeong gave up his trip to Rome. But this was a Parthian trick. At that time, Partia was making profits by intermediating goods between the Han Dynasty and Rome, and if direct trade between the two countries was opened due to Gamyeong's trip to Rome, it would be a big deal. That's why the Parthians hid the land route in northern Mesopotamia, the shortest distance to Rome, deliberately southward the Persian Gulf, bypassed the Arabian Peninsula, and scared only by informing them of the sea route to the Red Sea. The Chinese also later noticed this. There is a record like this. "The match was tall and like the Chinese, the upward movement was fair, but the clothing was different from that of China. They always wanted to send envoys to China, but the sabbatical (Partia) people were benefiting from trade with us, so they refused to allow the opposing people to pass through the sabbatical.' But in 166 it was as if Marcus Aurelius, a famous Roman army, came to Annam (now Vietnam) and sent ivory, buffalo horns, and turtles to the Chinese emperor. Just in time, Parthia was weakening, and exchanges with the Daejin-guk began in earnest afterward. Roman merchants from Alexandria to Southeast Asia by sea sent native products from Southeast Asia to China. He also went directly to the coast of China. Among these awards, records say that the Romans, who the Chinese called Jinryun, entered China themselves. In 226, he passed through Vietnam and entered China, which was then established by the Three Kingdoms, Wi, Chok, and Five Kingdoms. King Oh's grandson asked him in detail about Rome's land and people, and Jinryun wrote and reported documents. Son Kwon gave him 10 men and women slaves each and sent them back to Rome. More than 1700 years ago, Romans were staying in China. Source: Donkey (world history outside common sense) The exchange between the Great Empire Han Dynasty representing the East and the Great Empire Rome representing the West is somehow romantic... If they were close... It's also fun to imagine what world history would have been like.