China-Roman Empire relations

trade routes through Asia connecting China to the Mediterranean Sea

bilateral relation

Late first century Chinese military ambassador

thumb|400px|A mid-15th century Republic of Florence|Florentine world map based on the 1st (modified conic) projection in [[Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography. Serica is shown in the far northeast of the world.]]

thumb|300px|Daqin Guo (大秦國) appears at the Western edge, third from the bottom, of this Chinese world map, the Sihai Huayi Zongtu.

6th century event, in which two Nestorian monks smuggled silkworm from China into the Byzantine Empire, leading to the establishment of an indigenous Byzantine silk industry

battle in 36 BC between the Han dynasty and the Xiongnu chieftain Zhizhi Chanyu