Was there trade between China and the west five millennia ago?

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Marco Polo for single-handedly ruining the swimming pool experience of millions of quiet loving adults throughout the past millennia.

Given the time span, and the inability to know the consequences of his name, it's not really reasonable to blame him for that...

A judiciously inserted hyphen or comma might make Mr. Puckett's sentence more intelligible. I might however be expecting too much.

"I might however be expecting too much."

You are getting more than you are paying for.

If the loving adults were less quiet, the Marco Polo playes might get scared off.

You are getting more than you are paying for.

Much more, actually.

BTW T_n_T,

With the exception of one missing hyphen, my original statement is, even though quite long, grammatically correct.

Rand, if there was wheat it would have been brought by the Tocharians when they migrated to the area. It wouldn't have been trade as we think of it, the tocharians were right on the boundary, settled in the Tarim Basin.

Some of them were later kicked out, but then went on to form the Kushan Empire, which was one of the main historical means that Buddhism was transmitted to China.

We'll know that Sino-European exchange was even older than that if we ever discover anime drawings in the caves of Lascaux :-)

Alan, do you mean to tell me Sailor Moon killed off the woolly mammoth!?

All except for the one that evolved into a Pokemon, which is now in Ash Ketchum's collection.