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THE IRANIAN-GEORGIAN BRANCH OF THE SILK ROAD IN I-IVTH CENTURIES |
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时间：2009-7-24 13:48:35 来源：不详
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and not overland one through Persia”.[17] According to the information in the Chinese source, Hou Hanshu, “The Roman Orient trades with Parthia and India by sea and gets great profit, ten times of the capital… their [Ta Ch’in (Roma and Syria)] kings always hope to communicate with Han China, but the An-hsi [Parthia], wishes to trade Chinese silk with Rome, and disturbs the Roman trade with China, and so Rome herself cannot come to China… And it is for this reason that they were cut off from communication. This lasted till the ninth year of the Yen-hsi period during the emperor Huan-ti’s reign [= A.D. 166] when the king of Ta-ch’in, An-tun, sent an embassy...” [18] Between the second century B.C. and 4th century A.D. the nomads held the silk trade routes,[19] but during the first three centuries A.D. the intermediaries who interested in Silk trade were the Sogdians and the Kushans generally; while “the Sogdians played an important role in the development of trade links with China”,[20] the Kushans had expanded to the northwestern areas of India subcontinent in 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ... 下一页 >> |
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