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Something to do with the Silk Road?

• oblio 3y ago
  Silk, and in general almost every type of clothing until modern cotton processing. Most traditional clothing was very coarse and one of the most obvious class indicators, across millenia.
  • lukas099 3y ago
    Is there a specific war, genocide, or other event that you were referencing though? I wanted to learn more.
    • lukas099 3y ago
      I guess it was the main driver of slavery in the US...
  • scarby2 3y ago
    silk was so in demand and so lucrative a product that at one point smuggling silk worms out of china was punishable by death. I think the price of a silk shirt in the middle ages was roughly comparable to a luxury car today.
    • szundi 3y ago
      These comparisons always bring up the fact in my mind that the lowest class people today have so much better sanitation, like toilets compared to kings back then