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Incidentally, that site is wrong about why silk was so expensive. The problem was not lack of machines, but that in Roman times it was imported overland from C
by pg 18y ago
Incidentally, that site is wrong about why silk was so expensive. The problem was not lack of machines, but that in Roman times it was imported overland from China.
- bd 18y agoIndeed, in these times China had a monopoly for silk production [1]. It would be also interesting to know prices of spices, other luxury product driving international trade in ancient times [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_silk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_silk [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense_Route http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense_Route, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road