P.Clodius Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 It appears the romans had an established trade with India. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil25 Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 I seem to recall that a statue that originated in India was found in Pompeii some years ago. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 A group of Roman Catholics, called the Malabar Rite exists there. St. Thomas is alleged to have gone to India. Yet, I conclude nothing from this as regards the port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 They had a huge trade deficit with India and other countries in Asia. That bleed them lots of gold. The land route was thru Parthia and the Kushan kingdom while the see route was thru the Red Sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 right, silk especially costed them loads of gold. or Black pepper from Kerala. But they didn't stopped in India and eventually went sailed til China ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_embassies_to_China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Some of the things that they say there are in good Wikipedia style wrong. What chinese garrisons in Parthia one day from Ctesiphon? They did not even had common borders as the Kushan kingdom was between! But trade was carried with South and East Asia on a large scale with terrible consequences on roman economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheTwoMinutesHate Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Some of the things that they say there are in good Wikipedia style wrong. What chinese garrisons in Parthia one day from Ctesiphon? They did not even had common borders as the Kushan kingdom was between! But trade was carried with South and East Asia on a large scale with terrible consequences on roman economy. The idea of Wikipedia is that you can edit out things that are wrong. If you feel the article is wrong, just change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rameses the Great Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 I agree with Kosmo. Perhaps somehow they traded with India but by no means with China. The Romans may have known the Indians through the Persians. Even Egypt had not established frequent trade routes with them. China was just a thing of imagination to Europe until Marco Polo's ventures in the 1100's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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