Talk:Daqin

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This page is based highly on speculation. It is not known which state these individuals thought they were going to. The historical records are filled with so many fanciful descriptions that it is impossible to know, nor would they have known had they found it. There are many possibilities as to what they were referring to.


 * First of all, if you didn't notice - this article is based highly on sources. Find sources that claim otherwise and it will also be included in the article. Now to think about it - a realm seen worthy to be seen as a mirror or parallel to China - it could have only been Rome. I think it's interesting the world has been more open than we can imagine already 2000 years ago. Besides - for those who know how resources were moving around back then - this quote actually also mentions Estonia. Sorent (talk) 02:31, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. There seems to be an obsession in history that no Westerner nor Chinese ever met or travelled until after 1300's. This is utterly unbelievable to me and lacks common sense. Trade between the dynastic spheres of influence ("countries") would have been fantastically valuable, exotic and risky. It doesn't surprise me that the merchants/bankers/Kings/Queens/Emperors of the day would have taken care not to publicise such valuable trade routes and contacts to all and sundry within plebian (public) spheres. As enjoyable historic information is, it must be cynnically regarded. Chris

Etymology Section
The Etymology section affirms: The title "Daqin" does not seem to have any phonetic derivation from Latin Roma or Greek Romaikē, although it is possible that the Latin term used for China...

According to Baxter and Sagart, however (as quoted in Wiktionary), 大秦 is pronounced /*lˤa[t]-s [dz]i[n]/ in pre-tonogenesis Old Chinese (here probably meaning Han Dinasty). While it sounds nothing like Roma, it does sound an awful lot like Latini. Is there really no scholarship on the origin of the term that mentions these kinds of reconstrutions, if only to refute them? --Wtrmute (talk) 19:50, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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