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Two of the floruits of China and Rome, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty, overlapped in the late-1st and early-2nd centuries CE, but only ever had indirect contact with each other.

If Gan Ying's 97CE mission to Rome had succeeded, could it have formed the basis of a more concrete relationship between the two empires? What did Rome and Han have to learn from each other and could their peaks have lasted longer than they did in OTL as a result of their communication?
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