Neat place.
Posted on 11/20/2004 3:16:00 PM PST by blam
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Neat place.
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But of course they didn't have chili, so it couldn't last.
And? I guess one has to be an archeologist to get pumped up on this news. There was an article in an NC newspaper that someone found a bat-wing in the Linville Caverns. I almost wrote Senator Dole! My wife and I were so excited we called our daughter in Prague to break the news.
I believe they're called corpolites...or something close to that.
Stop being a wet blanket, Cobra. You never have anything new to add, anywhere, that I have read on here.
This is very interesting to those of us who like this sort of thing.
Perrercorns as in east asian "Spice Islands?" Was Rome trading there 1300 years before Marco Polo?
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If you've followed my posts, you'd know that I wouldn't be suprised if they were.
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It is well-known that the Romans traded to the west coast of India. They even had a cohort stationed in one of the cities to provide security for their merchants.
The spices probably got to western India through a chain of middlemen.
not only peppercorns... somewhere there's a surviving image from Roman times (vase? mosaic? can't recall) of an orangutan, which was a species not rediscovered until modern times.
The black pepper would have been imported, but coriander could easily be grown in southern Britain.
10 - "Perrercorns as in east asian "Spice Islands?" Was Rome trading there 1300 years before Marco Polo?"
They most certainly were. The mid-east, Iraq, and Iran, the Phoenicians were all traders.
As a matter of fact, there is evidence that Alexander the Great's fleets made it beyond india, after his death.
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Roman traders didn't trade directly with the far east even though they imported a lot of Asian goods. They had silk for instance which came from China and the Chinese received Roman glassware in return. The goods went through a series of middlemen. The Han Dyanasty period in China was as well-developed a civilization as the Roman one at the same time. The Chinese emissary Gan Ying got as far as Iraq in 97 AD.
The Han court record of a Roman trader is preserved. I doubt it was an isolated instance.
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