Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Roman Empire
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Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Roman Empire
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In the mid-6th century CE, two monks, with the support of the Roman emperor Justinian I, acquired and smuggled living silkworms into the Roman Empire, which led to the establishment of an indigenous Roman silk industry that long held a silk monopoly in Europe.
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6th-century event in which two monks smuggled silkworm eggs into the Roman Empire from China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into_the_Roman_Empire
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2024-03-10T09:39:59Z
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