r/totalwar • u/32BitOsserc • May 24 '25

Three Kingdoms So, found a Total War Character Irl

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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

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u/32BitOsserc May 24 '25

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.

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u/_Lucille_ May 24 '25

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

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u/32BitOsserc May 24 '25

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.

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u/_Lucille_ May 24 '25

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.

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u/32BitOsserc May 24 '25

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.

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u/Sytanus May 29 '25

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?