Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Did Rome and China Know Each Other?" video.

  1. Even if some Roman soldiers had settled in China, the genetic evidence of it wouldn't be all that strong. A few dozen, even a few hundred men wouldn't leave all that much of a footprint - especially on a country like China with its massive population. Even assuming that they were all able to breed (which is by no means a sure thing, considering that they would have seemed very strange, and not necessarily attractive, to Chinese women) it wasn't like there was a continuing influx of Europeans into China. It was one small group, Roman genes would have been stepped on heavily as everyone else would've been Chinese, and even if the bloodlines still survived (again, by no means certain giving China's history of war, plague, famine, and Mao over the last 2000 years), any surviving genes would be so heavily buried as to be easily overlooked.
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  2.  @drderplington  I'm just not so sure that Chinese women would've found that attractive. I know very little of male beauty standards among ancient Chinese women, but a lot of people anywhere and at any given time aren't into exotic.
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