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Ancient trade routes are amazing.
At the peak of the Roman Empire, there was a direct trade connection between Indonesia and Finland, to the extent the the finns could get nutmeg and Baltic amber dated to that era has been found in Indonesia.
It blew my mind when I found out.
The world of the past was a lot more connected than most people assume.
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The prefix Sino- to denote Chinese things comes from one of the Roman names for China: Sinae, which might have come from one of the Sanskrit names for China. That would mean there’s possibly a Sanskrit loan word in Latin, which still blows my mind.
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Indonesia and Finland
That’s almost exactly 10,000 km as the crow flies, I don’t think I’d go that far for nutmeg
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