To digress a bit about trade. I went to a talk regarding Ancient Kedah (around 600AD) last year. A researcher that was currently translating works by a Chinese Monk, I Tsing, told us that I Tsing mentioned in his journals, in Kedah port at that time he saw Roman (!) ships. Roman ships at currently Peninsular Malaya in 600AD. To me this is mind blowing. What we currently know today is just a very small part of what had happened. As Alan had mentioned in another thread recently, probably nowhere was remote to our ancestors.
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