Ahve, and welcome to Emperor of Rome, a podcast about the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me as always is Dr.

I'm an Evens, a senior lecturer in ancient Mediterranean studies at Latrobe University.

This is episode LX IV, Q&A II.

That's right, it's that time of the year again where we ask you for questions, you ask us questions, we listen, we answer the questions.

So without further ado, I'm going to throw to myself.

Here's Matt Smith.

I guess the disclaimer to start a Q&A episode is, uh, is thank you everyone for your generous and extensive questions and we liked quite a lot of them but cannot cover everything we can't even cover everything that we did like.

Some of them are quite extensive and you know there would be a lot involved to

answer them and we've written them down on a hypothetical notepad somewhere

is something that we might want to come back to later and we've now curated a list of questions here which

we're going to go through.

Rianen any preliminary thoughts before we wait into the questions?

Some of them are very deep and I'm going to have to think hard, but let's start.

This question is from a listener who's centered in herself, so we'll hear from her.

Hi, this is Heather Wood and I live in Longmont, Colorado.

With the recent find of Roman coins in a Japanese castle,

I started to wonder what kind of relationship the Roman Empire had with the great

empires of China and India to the East. Obviously Alexander made it all the way to

India but how much did they really know about this gigantic

empire?

Thanks so much.

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