• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I’m not so sure this is accurate, the Romans certainly knew of China at least, to them it was called Serica, and they believed in a Manifest Destiny myth that they would one day conquer it.

    Which would have been fukkin’ wild if it did play out, I think by that point the capital would have moved to Samarkand or somewhere else in Central Asia just to be able to maintain regulation over the silk road.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        10 months ago

        Yup. Not because they couldn’t, but because they figured they had enough boggy northern European territory, and would rather spend resources on Africa, Persia or the Middle East, which had nice things they wanted.