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Roundandroundwego · 61-69
It was an example of the hegemonic power Western populations tend to create.
It was hated and discredited for centuries and then it finally fell.
Roman soldiers stood on the Silk Road in 48 bc, intending to take it over, all the way to China. The Parthians sent a regiment of police against them, with huge silk banners and Chinese steel weapons.
The Romans used their bronze shields, but the Chinese steel punctured them. They lost. But that's how the Romans discovered silk and steel. It's like how the West is discovering Iran and the rest of the world, today.
It was hated and discredited for centuries and then it finally fell.
Roman soldiers stood on the Silk Road in 48 bc, intending to take it over, all the way to China. The Parthians sent a regiment of police against them, with huge silk banners and Chinese steel weapons.
The Romans used their bronze shields, but the Chinese steel punctured them. They lost. But that's how the Romans discovered silk and steel. It's like how the West is discovering Iran and the rest of the world, today.