The Importance of Living in Plains

The Han Chinese tried to send an embassy to the Romans during... I mean, they eventually did... they did eventually talk to each other, but this was way earlier on. The Parthians lied and said like, oh, you had to get the Rome, you got like sail around the entire planet And it takes like 15 years to get from one place to the other It's no big deal, don't even worry about it Like this is like the near Eastern middleman thing is like as old as recorded history But of course that has limits to it, but there's also situations where the people are the prime mover there.