Transcript Roman Exploration

Roman Exploration
Roman Exploration?
• Rome insular
• Uninterested in cartography, geography, other cultures?
• No attempt at diplomatic relationships?
• Never traveled beyond known borders of empire
To the North…
• Into areas of Germanic and Celtic occupation
• Caesar
• Gaul
• Brittania
To the east…
To the East…
• Regular trade with India
• Trade with China
• Chinese embassies in Seleucid Empire
• Chinese silk in Rome
• Diplomatic missions to Rome itself ?
• In the reign of Augustus (27 BCE- 14CE)
• Funan
• Óc Eo
Roman Coins from
SouthEastern India
Coins of Caligula (31-41 CE) and Nero’s reign (54-68 CE)
Cultural
Exchange
First Century CE Indian Augustus
Coin in the Roman Style
Cultural Exchange
Roman Explorers
Going East
• Maës Titianus (ca 100 CE)
• Roman Mission (166 CE)
Óc Eo
Opening the Silk
Road
To the Southeast
• Aelius Gallus
• Prefect of Egypt (25 -24 BCE)
• Expedition to Arabia Felix across desert
• Destruction of army
• Failed attempt
• Strabo
Explorations to the
South
• African trade
• Gold
• Exotic animals
• Julius Maternus
• Nero Expedition
• TRADE
Early African
trade Routes
A Global Trade
Network
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