why silk was so important ?
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I will give the importance for silk road and silk:
Silk road
Silk road was quite like cosmopolitan trade because it helped in trade and commerce between a miscellaneous of countries and among highly reverenced kingdoms. This helped in disintegration of ideas, cultures and inventions and its uniqueness over distinct countries. This silk road name was given by Ferdinand Von Rochthofan in 1877 who was a well know geographer . Due to high trading relationship among specific also helped propagation of cultures and its traditions and its disintegration. Ancient trade linked on west of China that carried freights and goods and cultures between two stupendous civilizations China and Rome
Silk
Silk is basically thin, strong and a shimmering fiber produced by bombyx mari or Silkworm and it dominantly helped in China trade and commerce to earn a prodigious profit and led to its prosperity and development. Leizu then discovered how to combine the silk fibers into a thread. She also invented the silk loom that combined the threads into a soft cloth. This dates back during time of Queen Tsi ling shi, she had a forest of mulberry trees for the silkworms to feed on and taught the rest of China how to make silk. This was discovered by her when she was sitting on her royal chair, and instantaneously a cocoon fall into her cup of tea, since cup of tea was hot the larvae inside it died, and cocoon begin unwinding. This scoured hard that where cocoon must have fallen from and making her last endeavor she found cocoon on mulberry tree and many caterpillar feeding on it. She then discovered the whole procedure for cocoon configuration or its developing. Silk was basically valuable due having received it price expensive as one who does trade of silk could earn million profit a day. Silk was considered of higher status and quality and was donned by merchants, peasants,traders and royal courteours and highly holding reverence in kingdom. Later on it was strictly prohibited for lower status people to wear silk clothes. Another reason it was important to exportation of silk to different countries. It became a export for Chinese nobles and foreign kings of lands desired silk and would pay really high price for its attainment. The emperor of China when learnt about this he wanted his country to become prosperous and wealthy so he let the exportation of silk continue and announced a rule anyone found revealing secret of manufacturing of silk would slained.Silk was used for other purposes than clothing such a paper, fishing lines, bowstrings, and canvas for painting.
Around the thirteenth century, Italy became one of the major producers of silk. Some of the finest silk in the world is made in Italy today.The Chinese managed to keep silk a secret for over 1000 years. However, in 550 AD the secret of silk became known to other countries when two monks from the Byzantine Empire managed to smuggle some silkworm eggs out of the country. They hid the eggs inside of their bamboo walking sticks.
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