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Everything Everywhere Daily

Ancient Rome and the Ancient Chinese

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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2,000 years ago the Han Empire in China and the Roman Empire in Europe were the two greatest empires in the world. Between them, they covered an enormous amount of the Earth’s land and a large percentage of the world’s population. But were these two great empires even aware of each other? If so, was there any contact between them? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2,000 years ago, the Han Empire in China and the Roman Empire in Europe were the two greatest empires in the world.

0:07.0

Between them, they covered an enormous amount of the Earth's surface and a large percentage of the world's population.

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But were these two great empires even aware of each other? and a large percentage of the world's population.

0:12.6

But were these two great empires even aware of each other?

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If so, was there any contact between them?

0:18.0

Find out how these two great ancient empires

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interacted with each other on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is brought to you by the Travel Photography Academy.

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or click in the link in the show notes. Before I start I should say that whenever we talk about the ancient world

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there's a lot we just don't know. Most of the writings we have from this time were

1:39.8

written down hundreds of years after the events took place and of the things that were

1:43.9

written down the vast majority of them have been lost to history. So what we have

1:47.9

is a scattering of documents and whatever archaeologists might find. That being said, there is ample evidence that China and

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