China–Africa Strategic Engagement by S.N. Yadav
China and Africa have a history of trade relations, sometimes through third parties, dating back as far as 202 BC and AD 220. Ptolemy, writing in Roman Egypt in the 2nd century, knew of China by two separate routes: the silk road and the Indian Ocean trade. He thus identified two Chinese peoples: the Seres or silk people and the Sinai of the southern trade, whose name probably derives from the Qin dynasty.
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