Silkworms smuggled to Byzantium
552* · Event
Monks smuggle silkworm eggs out of China for Justinian, breaking the Persian monopoly and founding Byzantine silk.
On these timelines: Justinian and Theodora, The Silk Road & the Steppe, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Roman History, Master
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