Did the Chinese and Romans Know Each Other?

Did the Chinese and Romans Know Each Other?
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The pre eminent historian of the second half of the 20th Century was William H McNeil of the University of Chicago. His book, the rise of the west, It won the National Book Award in History and Biography in 1964. he talked about the Silk Road. He said it was not what you think. The caravans did not go from Constantinople to what is now Modern day Beijing. There was a loop. The meeting point was the Pamir Knot which is called the roof of the world. Google says about it. The Pamir Knot is a nodal orogenic uplift in central Asia, north of India. It's the junction of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. The Pamir Knot is also known as the "Roof of the World" because of its high altitude.
The Pamir Mountains are located in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) of Tajikistan, which covers almost half of the country's land area. The Pamir Mountains are among the world's highest mountains and are formed by the collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates. The salient point is that this is where the caravans from Constantinople met the caravans coming from Beijing. This is where they traded goods and as the video notes also exchanged diseases. Here it was smallpox . Mc Neil said that a substantial number of the worlds population died in the exchange which was concentrated in the empires along the Silk Road. The above video notes that this amounted to up to 1/3 of the population of the empires on the Silk Road.