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A very small known world. Smaller than most large empires in land area.
by CMCDragonkai 7y ago
A very small known world. Smaller than most large empires in land area.
- eternalban 7y agoIt's not merely that. It is the willful disregard for the fact that Rome itself was very much aware of Parthian and Sassanid Persia, India, and China. An entire city in Iran was built by Roman prisoners of war! I sometimes wonder if the persistence of this willful disregard, as a pedagogical factor, plays a role in current geopolitical matters which finds the West in disarray as to how to respond to the reemergence of the "unknown world".
- sifar 7y agoEven before Rome, these regions were not unknown. The Greeks even fought them, settled there. One of my personal long term topics[1] to research is how these two hitherto separate schools of thought have influenced each other. The western and the oriental thought may have a common genesis. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism