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I guess that only very rarely a person made the whole trip along the entire silk road, but knowledge about the foreign lands definitely travelled much earlier.

For instance here's a Chinese description of the Roman empire from the 3rd century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XdPodNwSGU



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