An Overview on Commercial Relations between Iran and China in the era of Empires Sassanid

Abstract

The most important impact of Iran and china relations on each other has been commercial exchanges. The history of the Iran-China trade relations to the late second century BC and the Empire Ashkanis erase. The most important of good which was exchanged between the parties was silk. Silk had many fans in Iranian territory, especially in Roman Empire. Iranian weren't main customers of silks. They were playing the role of business intermediaries and they had the role for 700 years and an important point is the expansion of business relations with China by the Western cities of Empires Sassanid. When we study the history of fights that happened in Iran many years ago, we can understand that the main reason of many fights was commercial issues. Routes that goods could be carried throughout them, had an important role for these fights. So paying attention to history of commercial relationships between Iran and China is so important because we can understand that many great fights in history of human is result of commercial issues (routes, resources, …) and also we can understand that because the Silk Road was passed through Iran, some Iranian kings considered it as a benefit and wanted to impose tax on merchants who wanted to pass through the Silk Road. So we can understand how important commercial issues were in the past by studying commercial history.