Quite a trade route.
Quite a trade route
Hudson Cooper
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Carson Mitchell
What was the point of the silk road?
>roman bitches demand silk the way bitches demand diamonds nowadays (also a scam)
>romans mine tons of silver and gold and send it along the silk road
>have to devalue their coinage to keep up with demand
>china gets silver and gold but they don't export it so inflation erases most of its value
Dominic Davis
That leads to an interesting question, did they even have an understanding of economics at that time? Or as far later as the Spanish ruining themselves with hyperinflation from too much gold?
Chase Harris
I had no idea the Silk Road was that old, but everything actually makes a lot more sense now that I know that.
Lincoln Morris
There was extensive trade between Rome and Sri Lanka. There were trade between Romans and China but mostly via middle-man.
I would also like to understand how much Romans coins were there in circulation. China, according to records, were producing 200 mil of coins per year even back during Roman Empire Era. I wonder if Roman records show similar coin circulation.
Nathaniel Lee
Roman metal production absolutely dwarfed that of China so it probably parallels that in the coin department.
Dominic Anderson
The presence of Roman coins doesn't imply the presence of Romans
To answer the question of China, though the two powers were aware of each other the knowledge was almost exclusively second hand. Official Chinese emissaries were sent to Rome but got turned back at Ctesiphon by the Parthians.
Adam Scott
Thats a huge leap, metal production doesn't mean its used for coins. It could be used for war, for buildings, for building spaceships, warships, etc.
You'll need to give more accurate sources before making that sort of assumption.
Brody Wright
>did they even have an understanding of economics at that time
Yes, the roman mint monitored carefully the monetary situation to decide how much cash to produce yearly. That said, if the consul or later the emperor said "fuck that shit, mint me 1000 silver talents into sesterces, I need to raise some legions", the mint did it, regardless of the effects on the economy.
Oliver Nelson
According to two paper sources I read, the coin mintage around 230 AD Roman Empire was about 15 million coins per year.
Jacob Kelly
>for building spaceships
What happened to all the roman spaceships anyway?
Josiah Walker
I would be interested to read the full text. Any links anyone?
As for the OP, from what I understand Asian cultures were aware of the Romans but anything past that we're not sure.
Samuel Gutierrez
Of the Weilue? I managed to find
>depts.washington.edu
but haven't read it myself. Most of it seems to have been lost, but the part about the "peoples of the West" was quoted somewhere else and survived that way, if what I'm finding is correct.
Parker Evans
Ottoman coins there too? Probably some collector
Christian King
Why don't you post the image of the coin?
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Nathaniel Thomas
>12th-13th Century.
>Collector.
Adam Cox
Coin collecting is an ancient hobby in China/East Asia.
Collectively called Gu Yingbi (古硬币 lit. Ancient Coins)
Started off by bored T'ang aristos collecting shit from Warring States-Han Dynasty china. No doubt done by autistic Japanese nobles in the Yamato-Heian period.
Colton Harris
We wuz Romans and shit
Alexander Ramirez
>Okinawan, not Japanese, fgt.
Luke Scott
>did they even have an understanding of economics at that time?
>Yes, the roman mint monitored carefully the monetary situation
Aye.
I don't know exactly how much to read into this, but counterfeiting carried the death penalty -- often, damnatio ad bestias (getting torn to shreds by wild animals, most often leopards). Or getting buried alive.
Thomas Nelson
They're out there... waiting...
Joseph Myers
>he thinks silk, gold or silver have a relevant amount of real value