Roman Exploration

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Roman Exploration
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Roman Exploration?

• Rome insular
• Uninterested in cartography, geography, other
  cultures?
• No attempt at diplomatic relationships?
• Never traveled beyond known borders of empire

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To the North

• Into areas of Germanic and Celtic occupation
• Caesar
• Gaul
• Brittania

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To the east
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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

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Roman Coins from SouthEastern India

• Coins of Caligula (31-41 CE) and Neros reign
  (54-68 CE)

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Cultural Exchange

• First Century CE Indian Augustus Coin in the
  Roman Style

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Cultural Exchange
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Roman Explorers Going East

• Maës Titianus (ca 100 CE)
• Roman Mission (166 CE)

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Óc Eo
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Opening the Silk Road
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To the Southeast

• Aelius Gallus
• Prefect of Egypt (25 -24 BCE)
• Expedition to Arabia Felix across desert
• Destruction of army
• Failed attempt
• Strabo

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Explorations to the South

• African trade
• Gold
• Exotic animals
• Julius Maternus
• Nero Expedition
• TRADE

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Early African trade Routes
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A Global Trade Network
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