Knowledge of the opium poppy reaches China…

700 CE to 711 CE

Knowledge of the opium poppy reaches China in about the late seventh or early eighth century when Arab traders first introduce Opium thebaicum from the Egyptian fields at Thebes.

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Chang'an > Xi'an Shaanxi (Shensi) China View →

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Arab people View → Chinese (Han) people View → Chinese Empire, Tang Dynasty View → Egypt in the Middle Ages View → Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus) View →

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People: Philippe I de France, Duke of Orléans
Location: Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) Yorkshire United Kingdom
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