Re: A China-Sumer connection

From: Dylan Sung (dylanwhs.tsktsktsk_at_pacific.net.hk)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:24:49 -0000

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:4229B016.715E@worldnet.att.net...
> Comm wrote:
>>
>> "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@wxs.nl> wrote in message
>> news:sopg21ptg3s2kjg8jt8s0pnvinoillbf5i@4ax.com...
>> > On 4 Mar 2005 05:10:31 -0800, phippsmartin@hotmail.com
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>myself, was able to find a link that claimed that the Sumerians had
>> >>contact with the Turks by land
>> >
>> > That's a bit strange: Sumerian ceased to spoken ca. 2000 BC.
>> > The Turks are first mentioned in Chinese sources ca. 600 AD.
>> > That's a gap of 2 1/2 millennia.
>>
>> No, the Turks (by various Chinese names) are mentioned in Chinese history
>> thousands of years prior to that date - and I got that information from a
>> Chinese MD quite familiar with Chinese history.
>
> MD degrees aren't awarded for the study of history. Talk about parading
> false credentials!
>
> When do you think the Chinese annals (that means detailed accounts of
> history) were written? Hint: not "thousands of years prior to" 600 AD.

The most ancient written records from China come from the 13th to 11th
Century BC, but these were mostly enquiries to the ancestors of the Shang
kings and their pantheon about harvests, war, weather, pregnancies, and
general things to do with their lives. I don't think there is any mention of
Sumer, at least not from the sources I've read.

Sima Qian wrote Shiji (Historical Chronicles - sometimes translated as The
Records of the Grand Historian) in the early Han dynasty.

Dyl.

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