Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?
1,600-year-old system allowed farming in one of world’s driest climates
Which Ancient Chinese Goddess Are You?
Chinese deities are as numerous (if not more so!) than Greek or Norse gods, and just as interesting!
A Comparison Of Republican Roman and Han Chinese Barbarian Relations
This thesis compares how these two empires conquered and assimilated these barbarian groups, namely the Roman conquest of Gaul and the Chinese conquest of the Xiongnu, a nomadic people that inhabited modern day Mongolia.
Where Huns' Blood Drew
It is in fact a long time that our knowledge of the Huns has not been satisfactory due to the mainstream scholars using exclusively the Byzantine and European — occasionally the Arabic — sources for their researches.
The Cultural Exchange between Sino-Western: Silk Trade in Han Dynasty
During Han Dynasty, it was a competition between the Huns and the Hans for occupy the Silk road.
A Roman Legion Lost in China
The battle of Carrhae ended fifty-three years before the birth of Jesus Christ, on the last day of May. It was a shameful disaster for the Roman army: seven legions with the strength of 45,000 men were humiliated and routed by 10,000 Parthian archers.
A Roman Legion Lost in China
The battle of Carrhae ended fifty-three years before the birth of Jesus Christ, on the last day of May. It was a shameful disaster for the Roman army: seven legions with the strength of 45,000 men were humiliated and routed by 10,000 Parthian archers.
Comparing comparisons: ancient East and West
What is comparative history good for? Does it pose special challenges? In our time of accelerating globalization, are we ready to embrace a new inter-discipline, Comparative Classics?
The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between Rome and China, 300-700 CE
This is a study of the modes of political and cultural communication which led to a rare level of ‘intervisibility’ between the various societies and states along the Silk Road in the Late Antique period (roughly 300-700 CE).
The First Emperor of Qin: Between Legend, Science and Nationalism
In 221 B.C., the king of the state of Qin completed the conquest of the other feudal states and declared the foundation of the Qin dynastic empire, proclaiming himself the ‘First August Emperor of Qin’ – Qin Shihuangdi.