Monopoly: Portuguese Edition (Cinnamon)
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Silk in Europe in the Time of Nero
You had to trade it from the first person who harvested it in China, let's say. And they're like, yes, a pound of this will be 50 denarii. It was so valuable that A, you could trade like ivory or gold for it or you could just give it to a king as a gift. You could give it to an altar for a god and it was acceptable. The whole thing becomes like, you know, this massively expensive, very fashionable, high class thing.
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