Did any ancient Greeks live in China thousands of of years ago?
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1 :
Xena warrior princess did!
2 :
I really don't think so. Alexander the Great would be the first (Macedonian) to have visited China----ever---had he decided to press through India. But alas, he didn't. (Xena? LOL)
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It's possible, although there are no records to my knowledge of there being Greeks in China. In saying that there is some evidence that there may have been some Romans in western china.
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not likely. the greeks , like the romans, traded with the chinese for needed things but unlike the romans, the greeks traded sparsely. there might've been some rogue greeks who traveled to china and stayed but remember, of all the countries in the world, china then, as now, was a vast area. thousands of years ago, china wasn't united and fringe chinese areas had little to do with the inner parts of china or the western regions. mountains in china run east/west not north/south so travel among chinese areas wasn't done a lot! hope this helps!
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Nope. The earliest trace of anybody we could relate to the Greeks (as opposed to primitive Indo European people) would be around 1600 BC, when people we call Mycenians seem to have had cities in Southen Greece and to have taken over Crete. Clay tablets they left have been successfully deciphered from the premise that despite the weird alphabet (a syllabary called Linear B, derived from a Cretan script called Linear A and not yet understood), they were written in Greek. Those people were those who fought the Trojan war etc. They ranged the Mediterranean, but their settlement area was strictly limited to the Eastern mediterranean. Southern Greece and Aegean islands. Even traditionally Greek lands, like Epirus or modern Turkey were yet populated by non Greek peoples. Turkey and the lands East of there were filled with other populations, none of them Greek speaking, and we have no records of any expeditions to China, let alone settlements there... and the Chinese were great for keeping records of their barbarous neighbors.
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no - they did not have the technology to do so nor had the world been mapped so that any nation ventured out that far - central europeans did make contact with indians in that area and we know of the macedonians venture all the way to India - Macedonians lived there for some time they were not greeks as they were a nation - 'Alexander the Great'
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No, not Greeks, but there were indeed caucasians living in China at a remote period (bronze age.) The extremely well preserved mummies of Urum-chi were immediately noticeable for their height (some 6ft or above)and reddish/fair hair. Only recently the Chinese government allowed proper dna testing on the mummies and they did indeed turn out to be European.
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