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| | Yuezhi - Chinese ethnics - China |
 | | The Yuezhi were visited by a Chinese mission, led by Zhang Qian in 126 BCE, which was seeking an offensive alliance with the Yuezhi to counter the Xiongnu threat to the north. |
 | | Although the request for an alliance was denied by the Yuezhi son of the slain king, who prefered to envoy peace in Transoxonia rather than to seek revenge, Zhang Qian made a detailed account, reported in the Shiji, that gives a lot of insight into the situation of Central Asia at that time. |
 | | As they settled in Bactria from around 125 BCE, the Yuezhi became Hellenized to some degree, as suggested by their adoption of the Greek alphabet and by some remaining coins, minted in the style of the Greco-Bactrian kings, with the text in Greek. |
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