Any history wizzes here- What did the ancient Chinese/Asiatic area people think of Europeans as?

[Deleted member 12187]

curious ngl

 

[Deleted member 12187]

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[AbandonShip]

Wrong forum tbh

 

[IAMNOTANINCEL]

Ask Cham

 

[T_T]

Ancient Chinese and thought of whites as inferior barbarians and their features like deep set eyes and beards and light hair like monkeys were considered subhuman. But their women were sought after as sex slaves and dancers. They have been genocided mutliple times hence there's no whites left on asia

 

[OldRooster]

98% of them were NPCs that didn't know much of anything beyond 50 miles from where they lived.

 

[romanstock]

Mencius mentioned that even King Wen of Zhou had ancestries from the "western barbarians" (西夷).[23]

7th-century scholar Yan Shigu made these remarks about the Wusuns, one group included to the "western barbarians": "Among the barbarians (戎; Róng) in the Western Regions, the look of the Wusun is the most unusual. The present barbarians (胡人; húrén) who have green eyes and red hair, and look like macaque monkeys, are the offspring of this people";[24][25][26] the exonym 胡人 Húrén "foreigners, barbarians",[24] was used from the 6th century to denote Iranian peoples, especially Sogdians, in Central Asia, besides other non-Chinese peoples.

 

[Deleted member 12187]

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[ElTruecel]

98% of them were NPCs that didn't know much of anything beyond 50 miles from where they lived.

There was the Silk Road though

 

[Deleted member 12187]

There was the Silk Road though

silk road was mostly just a trade route tho innit?

its not like they actively interacted with each other outside of trade?

 

[Deleted member 12187]

lumo

 

[ElTruecel]

silk road was mostly just a trade route tho innit?

its not like they actively interacted with each other outside of trade?

True but regardless and there was common interactions with Sogdians for example I know that.

 

[incelconspiracy]

White power, buddy

 

[Trilogy]

there's no whites left on asia

Except for North Asia (Siberia)