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CHAPTER

The History of Silk

The story about the Chinese silk moths and them being protected is I'm not sure that that's true because the Chinese did share technology with Korea and Japan and with the Mongols. No one would domesticate an insect or an animal at all if they didn't already see a value in it. The idea that it was illegal to take out some moths and... Yes, but certainly in the West it didn't come here until millennia after it had started being developed in China. And it's a slow process. Is it that it moves from one country to the next country into the next through trade? Well that's the thing, there's a very famous story written by Prokop

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