... Scotland, and in the course of the almost 400 years that they dom-inated Britain, the Romans gained consider-able knowledge of that land. At the otherextreme of the empire, the Emperor Trajan(ruling ... a Greek of the first centuryB.C. from the Roman-con-trolled island of Mitilini, off the northeasterncoast of Asia Minor. He provided quite adetailed description of the Caucasus, the mountainous ... tells of howduring the reign of Emperor Huandi (Huan-ti), the king of Ta-ts’-in, Antun sent an em-bassy that, from the frontier of Jih-nan[Annam, or central Vietnam], offered ivory,rhinoceros...