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Who were the first to learn to make silk?
The Chinese
Why did Romans want to find who made the silk?
silk was first found in china. when the Europeans went to China they saw the silk witch was made by the Chinease and they wanted the silk as the silk was really valuable back then.
What was the price that the Romans paid for a pound of silk?
The Romans paid a high price for a pound of silk.
How did the Romans think silk was made?
Romans thought silk grew on trees instead of being manufactured
Why was it hard for the Romans to find silk weavers?
The Romans did not look for silk weavers. They imported silk from China. The Chinese were very far from Europe and kept the art of silk making secret.
Silk was especially desired by?
the Romans
Were did the Romans empire get silk from?
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What product did the Romans trade for Chinese silk?
Glass
Why was papyrus used instead of silk for scribing hieroglyphs?
Silk was introduced to Egypt much later by Romans.
Conflicts that occurred on the silk roads?
One conflict is that the Romans sent out soldiers on the silk road to find out how to make silk, but they didn't succeed.
When was the first time the Romans saw Chinese silk?
It is not known. The first account of silk in Rome was in the 1st century AD by Pliny the Elder (23-79 BC) who described silk dresses which allowed women 'to be dressed but nude' and speculated that silk came from 'the hair of sea-sheep' or from trees. It was said that Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) had silk curtains. Silk was known in Greece and Judea in the 4th century BC. The Persians bought silk from the Chinese. Large scale use of the silk Road for trade begun in the 1st century AD. This is also the period when the Romans conquered Turkey and Syria, which were terminals of the Silk Road on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. One can speculate that silk reached Rome in the 2nd or 1st century BC.
How did the Romans trade?
They used the Med. sea and the Silk Road that connected them to China.
