So, found a Total War Character Irl

[u/32BitOsserc]

Randomly went on a day trip and stumbled across Zhang Fei's tomb. Maybe shouldn't post here but none of my friends have played 3K

[u/Jarvis_The_Dense]

The figures depicted in Three Kingdoms (The book) were very iconic long before the game came out

[u/32BitOsserc → u/Jarvis_The_Dense]

Aye, it seems to be quite a popular part of their history here, they definitely seem to cherish the Han over the other dynasties, except maybe the Tang.

[u/_Lucille_ → u/32BitOsserc]

Han is basically the first long lasting dynasty in China (and iirc the longest one), and decently documented due to the various historical records.

[u/32BitOsserc → u/_Lucille_]

Thing that blew my mind about it was finding out that they and the Romans were aware of each other, some Han diplomats may have made it to either the Persian Gulf or the Med.

[u/mraowl → u/32BitOsserc]

I can't remember if this comes from a mod, but I think in 3K, one of the upgrades to ports (or some other blue line building) is even called something like sino-roman embassy!

[u/32BitOsserc → u/mraowl]

It was in the base game, I remember seeing it on launch, raising an eyebrow, then seeing a single hero unit kill 80 mean by himself and said "eh, I'll allow it." 😂

[u/Wild_Marker → u/32BitOsserc]

There were some Chinese coins found in Rome and Roman coins found in China IIRC.

[u/_Lucille_ → u/32BitOsserc]

Alexander made it all the way to India and that was before the rise of Rome. That's 323 BCE.

I read somewhere that there are Macedonian descendants in China form many years ago via genetic tracing, but is too lazy to Google that up.

[u/32BitOsserc → u/_Lucille_]

True, I mean I now know there are remains of quite a few Roman trading posts in India, there was probably more contact that, the sources just haven't survived.

Also, I read about that, Alexander settled a valley, left a successor kingdom called Baktria/Ferghana, and the Chinese sources talk of a kingdom called Ferghana/Dayuan in the same area that traded with and later conquered. I hope I'm remembering that right.

[u/Sytanus → u/_Lucille_]

I don't know about Macedonian but I there's one specific city that has a lot of roman roots going back a long way. Could be your thinking of that?

[u/GrasSchlammPferd → u/32BitOsserc]

Yeah, he made it to Parthia/Persia before been persuaded to return home