Zhang Qian is sent west by Emperor Wu
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The Han court dispatches Zhang Qian with about a hundred men to find the Yuezhi and propose a joint attack on the Xiongnu. He is captured crossing Xiongnu territory and held for roughly a decade.
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- Story
- The Han court dispatches Zhang Qian with about a hundred men to find the Yuezhi and propose a joint attack on the Xiongnu. He is captured crossing Xiongnu territory and held for roughly a decade.
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- Han Empire
- Zhang Qian
- Zhang Qian is sent west by Emperor Wu
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- Zhang Qian
- Han Empire
- Han Empire
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- Zhang Qian is sent west by Emperor Wu
- Zhang Qian returns to Chang'an
- Taklamakan Desert
- Silk
- Zhang Qian
- Zhang Qian is sent west by Emperor Wu
- Han campaigns against Dayuan for the Ferghana horses
- Han establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions
- Evidence
- The earliest and closest account of Zhang Qian's missions, the peoples and kingdoms he reported from Ferghana, Bactria and Parthia, and the Ferghana horses that prompted the Han campaigns of 104 to 101 BCE. Sima Qian was writing within living memory of the events.
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