By Étienne de la Vaissière; James Ward (Translator) (Author)
The Sogdian investors have been the most go-between of imperative Asia from the 5th to the 8th century. From their cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, or Tashkent, their diaspora is attested by way of texts, inscriptions or archaeology in the entire significant nations of Asia (India, China, Iran, Turkish Steppe, but additionally Byzantium). This survey for the 1st time brings jointly the entire information on their exchange, from the start, a small-scale exchange within the first century BC as much as its lead to the 10th century. it's going to curiosity the entire experts of historical and Medieval Asia (including experts of Sinology, Islamic reports, Iranology, Turkology and Indology) but in addition experts of Medieval financial heritage.
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Thus, the Shiji states: Anxi is situated several thousand li west of the region of the Great Yuezhi . The people are settled on the land, cultivating the fields and growing rice and wheat. They also make wine out of grapes. They have walled cities like the people of Dayuan , the region containing several hundred cities of various sizes. The kingdom, which borders the Gui River, is very large, measuring several thousand li square. Some of the inhabitants are merchants who travel by carts or boats to neighbouring countries, sometimes journeying several thousand li.
Casson, 1989, §64, p. 91. Histoire Auguste [Augustan History], Hadrian 21, 14, trans. Callu, p. 42; Aurelian, 33, 4, trans. Paschoud, p. 44 and 41, 10, trans. Paschoud, p. 52. 63 See the fundamental article by Raschke, 1978, pp. 637–650. The step-by-step argument backwards—which successively eliminates the Chinese, the Sogdians, the Kushans and the Parthians in order to end up with only the populations of the Eastern Mediterranean as commercial intermediaries—is not very convincing, despite its erudition.
This excludes all possibility of contact at the time of Alexander, as the Qin dynasty reigned a century after the Macedonian, between 221 and 206 BCE. Only then did it become the representative par excellence of the Han ethnos, the Chinese. The dynasty fought effectively against the nomad Xiongnu of Mongolia and built the Great Wall. The Chinese texts show clearly that the Xiongnu used the term “men of Qin” to designate the Chinese during the subsequent Han dynasty,27 while the Chinese, among whom the Qin had left extremely negative memories, did not use it.
