How the Romans Stole Silk Production Secrets from China

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Silk production was one of the biggest secrets of China and one of the most lucrative industries of the age. So it is not a surprise that the Roman emperor Justinian was eager to learn this secret. In this video we will discuss the start of the silk production, its importance and the story of how Justinian managed one of the first industrial thefts in history
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Gotta love me some K&G. I always love to find hidden information in your works to seek out even more new knowledge, but I don't speak for everyone. That's why I suggest that in your future explanation of Nestorian monks and similar people of great importance, maybe you could add an extra line about how their rituals involved keeping mulberry trees around and where the movement came from. It was simple to understand why they had a great chance of success in the mission once you really know what Nestorian monks are and did.

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[@justinianmakesbyzantiumgre5716]

You are welcome guys.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Good job? :-)

[@Novusod]

The story of how the secret to silk making was stolen from China was one Justinian's greatest accomplishments. The ability to make silk gave the Byzantium empire a valuable trade commodity that funded their exploits for the next 900 years. If you watch the videos on the Byzantine Empire it always seems like they never run out of gold to pay tributes and raise armies. This is where all that gold came from. The silk trade. The secret to Byzantium's longevity and vast wealth is rarely discussed in history. Thank you Kings and Generals for making this video. And thank you Justinian for making Byzantium Great Again.

[@justinian-the-great]

Yeah, great job!

[@noman2330]

Novusod the byzantinese where the modern americans , dominating in economy

[@michaelgamba7674]

a true Roman emperor!

[@goneutt]

The first act of industrial espionage was when Prometheus stole the secret of fire from the gods. But he had to give it away, couldn't find a fence, too hot.

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

lol, good one

[@Mystakaphoros]

This was good and you should feel good about it.

[@devinsamuel3612]

He really got burned on that deal. (GNU Terry Pratchet)

[@chelebelle2223]

Arf-arf-arf-arf-Arf-arf....😂😂

[@ajmainhussain7801]

This is just a myth

[@macrotransaction2383]

I appreciate that you always say "we don't know" when you don't know. I've seen many so called documentaries made by "experts" who like to fill their gaps of knowledge with ridiculous imagination or even Hollywood cliche to attract audience. Great jobs K & G and please keep it coming

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you! :-)

[@ap6480]

That also happens here

[@KingNoTail]

​@@ap6480Where? Please elaborate.

[@12345678900987659101]

*Level 1 Traveler* *Level 50 Silk Producer* That how Roman work.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Love that meme :-)

[@KingsandGenerals]

No. :D

[@vd9866]

*Level 50 Silk Stealer

[@slappy8941]

That how Roman work hurr durr durrrrr! "That's" how "Romans" work, idiot.

[@12345678900987659101]

@@slappy8941 Imagine being this cringe.

[@marcusvipsaniusagrippa1456]

If I would’ve figured out how to produce silk, Augustus would’ve just told everyone he went and found the secret himself.

[@ahumpierrogue137]

Augustus actually hated Silk as he was very conservative and Silk garments were just too sexy for conservative Romans to handle.

[@karolean8342]

But isn't Augustus your friend?

[@lmaozedong2259]

Agrippa and Augustus the best power couple in roman history lmao

[@vsimoul]

nice... take my like

[@kilpatrickkirksimmons5016]

Lmao. Have yourself a like.

[@G33KN3rd]

Fun Fact, the monks were Assyrian Nestorians from the Church of the East.

[@lukezuzga6460]

Nice, thx

[@G33KN3rd]

@nik Bahtin nobody extinct here.

[@SxVaNm345]

The Assyrians have a powerful history & legacy.

[@G33KN3rd]

@@SxVaNm345 yes and they still exist.

[@G33KN3rd]

@@mastery2811 catholic in name only.

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Congratulations you reached 500k subscribers

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

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@@KingsandGenerals can you continue the hundred years wars series? You guys made the battle of crecy and then stopped

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[@franciscomm7675]

@@VentiVonOsterreich indeed

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

@@franciscomm7675 It's a pyrocynical meme you dip

[@HistoryHouseProductions]

That good ol’ fashioned Byzantine Diplomacy

[@KingsandGenerals]

Yep :-)

[@tylerellis9097]

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Matzel R. No, Byzantine. We are orthodox.

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[@wedredwed000]

The book "A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped The World" covers the silk trade in a some considerable depth and would be worth reading for anyone interested in the topic!

[@Astuga]

Another factoid video. Like so often the real history is somewhat more complex. Fe. the ancient Greeks already used wild silk... pasteboard.co/HZ3ElKY.jpg

[@slamdunktiger]

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[@kaloarepo288]

British did the same thing in the Nineteenth Century with tea -tea was then virtually a Chinese monopoly and the most prized varieties were grown around Buddhist monasteries -a British traveler,armed with a newly invented portable greenhouse,using the pretext that he was interested in the monasteries,actually stole specimens and took them to British India where the colossal Anglo-Indian tea industry was established (In Sri Lanka as well) which quickly put the Chinese tea growing industry out of business.

[@altang884884]

Even though it’s still wrong, you can almost justify why China nowadays steals so much Intellectual Property…..

[@gianlucaborg195]

No one else managed to rob steal and copy from every available culture, entity or state accessible with available means apart from the Romans-the one and only. I never thought I would be interested in industrial espionage-epic keep up the great work, thank you K&G!!!!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you, my friend! Indeed, that is one of the earliest examples of the industrial espionage.

[@flagearvideo]

Yet, the Chinese had the last laugh -gunpowder brought down Byzantium...

[@gianlucaborg195]

Ki Ki wha?

[@ofthecaribbean]

The silk must flow...

[@jrsssizemore]

I like this. It's something I did not expect to see but enjoyed and even though it's short that only means when my son watched it with me his attention span was only just about to give out before he realized he learned something haha.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for spreading the knowledge. :-)

[@secretscipio]

Last Time I came this early, Romans were conquering Gaul & China was crushed by crushing a crushing rebellion.

[@nomooon]

I swear if you say crushing more time..... ;)

[@choizde7126]

It took me some time to finish reading your sentence...

[@Intranetusa]

@Chi Ng Except the Chinese did conquer other nations. The Qin conquered the other Warring States (including the Austro-Asiatic kingdoms of Shu and Ba) and conquered Au Lạc in modern day SW China/north Vietnam. The Han conquered Nanyue, Minyue, Baiyue/hundred Yue tribes, etc of modern day South China and north Vietnam. They invaded the proto-Korean kingdoms of North Korea and the Qiang kingdom of Gansu. They also conquered the Tocharians and 36 city states of the Tarim Basin and invaded as far as Ferghana.

[@Intranetusa]

@@onehope6448 First, the region of what we think of as "China" is as big as the entire continent of Europe, so it's basically a continent sized landmass by itself. Second, the Middle East is mostly a part of the Asian continent, and historically, the powers from that region primarily conquered small fractions of North Africa, Western Asia, and occasionally Eastern Europe. Third, the Han Dynasty was as big as or bigger than any of the other ancient era empires that existed before the middle ages - the Roman Empire, the Achaemenid Empire, Macedonian Empire, etc. If you want to do an apples to apples comparison, the Eastern & Western Han Empire were 2.3-2.5 million sq miles in 100 AD and 50 BC respectively, the Roman Empire in 117 AD was 1.9 million sq miles, the Achaemenids was 2.1 million sq miles in the 5th century BC, and the Macedonian Empire was 2 million sq miles in 323 BC.

[@Innovate22]

This was 800 years before Marco Polo. Just wish we could learn more about the story of these Monks. Your content on ancient cultural mixing is my absolute favorite series on KZbin right now.

[@InspectHistory]

Very interesting topics, that explains why Romans (Byzantine), became so rich from trading :) Also congratulations for achieving 500k subscribers :)

[@fvriovs5502]

@Neko Means Cat Except they didn't speak Latin, weren't culturally Roman, and didn't hold the Roman gods or their institutions. They're no more Roman than the Russians.

[@fvriovs5502]

@Your Typical Pinoy Yes.

[@midshipman8654]

Neko Means Cat Yes, we all know they are Rome, but the civilization was distinct enough to that of the republic and empire that we kind of need a term to differentiate them from western Roman Empire and the previous governance from Rome the city. Politicaly, yes they were Rome, but as historians Byzantine is a useful distinction.

[@GianmarcoSechet]

@@fvriovs5502 You could say the exact same thing about the Roman Kingdom, they spoke an archaic version of latin wich was nowhere near close to the one of the Republic. They weren't culturally Romans as the ones in the Republic nor did they worship the same gods. One of the things that your logic deficits it's the lack of the "concept of evolution", nobody stays the same throughout history.

[@fvriovs5502]

@@GianmarcoSechet Nope. Because the Roman Republic was the evolution of the Roman Kingdom in language, culture, and religion. Greek is distinct in all three and required the abandonment of Roman.

[@JDC77]

Justinian is one of the great Roman emperors. His restoration of the empire is just brilliant. 👍

[@ypippo1662]

To the friends who are reading this comment:happy Chinese New Year! Nice video.

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Love the channel. You help fill in all the small details that history leaves behind.....gratitude

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Such an interesting economic topic, loved the video!

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The topics you choose to demonstrate are always awesome! Cheers!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you!

[@KHK001]

great! as always. and congrats for reaching 500k subs 😃

[@bmr2104]

And today, China is investing heavily in trade deals and infrastructure in countries like Iran, Pakistan and Turkey to revive the silk road. That's beautiful! Nice video

[@Connor19527]

It’s mostly seen in Russia and Europe which is interesting i thought

[@polypededethebes3170]

But the new Silk Road is more a politico-economical project of the Chinese government to create a dependency in the relationships of Europe towards China...

[@ericconnor8251]

These modern trade and investment projects promoted by the PRC really have nothing to do with the Silk Road, not even remotely. It's a very weird phrase to revive in this instance, because it has nothing to do with silk or the historical trade routes that were compromised and basically ended by the global trading networks of the overseas European empires in the Age of Sail/Exploration/Colonialism, i.e. late 15th to 18th centuries.

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@@julianlanga1586 partly why Dyson is developing it's new electric car in Singapore as apposed to China

[@Connor19527]

D Yu it creates economic dependency, they’ve been doing it throughout Asia and Australia over the years. They go towards nations with a big capital account deficit like Hungary or Italy, and then offer to give such an influx of money and investments that it is hard to say no. China plays the 25 year game while the others just try to get re-elected. Guess that is one of the few positives of having unlimited term limits and one party

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Another fantastic video teaching me something I didn't know about until today. Briilliant!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you. ;-)

[@761111railgun]

And English stole tea damn

[@buyiyoung5836]

a British businessman stole the tech and seed. and he said he brought fortunate to civilized world. Then he sold tech and seed to American again. i cant remember hisname exactly.maybe u canhave a try

[@semiautothanoscar9612]

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 japan learned how to make Guns

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 not japan, tea was already in european hands before japan was encountered. the british got the tea from trading indirectly with the dutch or spanish or directly from the hokkien chinese. the british had malacca, burma and the british raj in india, the spanish had the philippines, and the dutch had indonesia and taiwan. all of them traded with the hokkien chinese in Quanzhou, Fujian since it was the start point of the maritime silk road. you can see this via linguistic etymology. in hokkien, tea is pronounced as tê/têe, basically like teh. in spanish, this became té. in dutch, this became thee. in english, this became tea. in french, this became thé. the portuguese had macau and other parts of indonesia. they called tea as chá because they traded with the cantonese and macau is cantonese. in cantonese, it is pronounced as caa4, basically like tsah.

[@761111railgun]

Well... I think gunpowder knowledge was spread out by mongols.

[@MisterCOM]

@@hawklee1983black powder not gunpowder

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Congratulations for 500K subs!

[@madmazmc]

Awesome! Been waiting for a good video on this!

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Congratulations for 500k+ subscribers

[@chava5808]

Can you make a video about the tents, camps and fortifications that ancient armies made during their long journeys. How did they look? How well defended were they? Did they build a new fort every night during the journey?

[@matthewmcneany]

Really enjoyed this change of pace from the usual content

[@stevewarwick2103]

Great episode/post, very insightful and informative.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you for watching :)

[@jasjrock6424]

the silk worms were swapped for magic beans

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looool

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[@angelabby2379]

and tea were swapped for magic oil

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@@angelabby2379 they taught them easterners how to be civil more like

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500 thousand subscribers ? That's unheard of for history channels . You must be doing an amazing work ! Well done :-)

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Thank you :-)

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Great video! Thanks for making it.

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[@mevlanisufi2100]

Never heard of this. Amazing. Also it shows that China was always an economic powerhouse.

[@rcnemesis7645]

Actually Rome had certain technology or production that china couldn't replicate also the same thing goes to China this means both Roman and China are both powerhouses sorry for 2 year reply.

[@polynesianwarrior2166]

@@rcnemesis7645 yeah I know china invent gun powder compass printing machine...etc

[@Hungabrigoo]

Running out of money and collapsing because we buy too much stuff from the Chinese is a recurring theme in European history. Lucky such a thing could never ever happen in the present day...

[@Hungabrigoo]

@Kong King You are kidding, history does not repeat itself and neither do I. History does not repeat itself and neither do I.

[@Alejojojo6]

@@polynesianwarrior2166 gun powder, but the weapons using gun powder were invented in the west.

[@MijnAfspeellijst1234]

6:21 the camera angle change gave it a really strange but unique effect. great video as always.

[@bprinter9238]

I genuinely thought that u couldn't make this into a video coz it's quite short, but it's really well covered, nice vid

[@onuscronus984]

Never park your car underneath a Mullberry tree the sap is very hard to clean off.

[@basillah7650]

Lucky that you did not have a tree branch break off due to them being easy to break as well.

[@MrMonkeySwag96]

@Onus Cronus what up bro. I was just arguing with a guy about how Byzantines are Romans in the comments section.

[@sebtaz31]

A great video,as always

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

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Congratulations for 500 000 subs, you guys deserve it. :)

[@zigg4045]

I could listen to this narrator's voice all-day long. One of the best narrator's, if not the best.

[@emresar6364]

Prusa(Modern day Bursa) that you mentioned as silk industry center in video is still center of silk industry in Turkey after roughly 1500 years :)

[@guldarheel1204]

My question is if the Romans and Greeks knew that great lands and empires lay beyond their realm of control, how can people say that they ruled or controlled the "known world" when even they knew the world was larger and may have aspired to conquer it, but did not?

[@alexandrostheodorou8387]

Guldar Heel Alexander wanted to invaded but his army mutinied. And he died before he could plan a new expedition. The Romans could simply never beat the Parthians or Sassasinds to get to China.

[@arddermout6946]

well, 90% of the world population was living in either roman teritory or chinese teritory. who cares about a couple of dudes in a desert or forest. which "great empires" are you talking about?

[@pujaltejosephnataniel4334]

@@arddermout6946 and India

[@emani2704]

@@alexandrostheodorou8387 His army didn't mutinied, that is just propaganda to glorify Alexander and stop internal rebellion. They chooses desert to return to avoid attack from local kings in multiple cities along his way. Because if those kings knew if Alexander returning after getting wounded they would attack to takeover kingdoms. Imagine people in Macedonia raising slogans like "All hail to conqueror of the world The Great Alexander" and someone from behind says "But he run away from his last war". It would not feel right.

[@emani2704]

@@arddermout6946 90% of World population never lived in Europe or Roman Empire. Asia had majority of population from last 8000-10000 years. You can confirm if you want.

[@pupelee]

very interesting event! please do more content like this, as there is much more to history than just battles! thank you!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you, planning more!

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

I read about this story before, but it's still nice to see it get coverage by other people. Such a fascinating story!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you :)

[@brokenbridge6316]

Impressive story. This journey must have been pretty epic for those two Monks. I wonder what they're true story was. And also I wonder if we can see a possible movie on this epic. Which I suspect would be a good one. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.

[@mr.beanladen1469]

A want a comedy heist movie

[@matthewedwards3225]

Any video on Byzantium gets an automatic Like

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Congrats for 500k subs I have been subscribed since the battle of yarmouk video and thank god that found this channel

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you very much, we appreciate it!

[@pekkamakela2566]

A few centuries later the norman king of sicily attacked byzantium and forcibly moved silk makers and equipment to southern italy. Byzantine monopoly on european silk markets was thus undone.

[@MDP1702]

@Neko Means Cat And now they are known as byzantines, it doesn't matter how they were known at that time.

[@pekkamakela2566]

@Neko Means Cat i know that they were called romans back then, and i think they were the legitimate successor to rome, but i wrote my comment for modern day people to understand, as the term byzantine has become the norm.

[@tylerellis9097]

Neko Means Cat, we all know the Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire but Byzantine is a modern acceptable Academic term to distinguish the Byzantine period from the Roman Empire of Classical and late Antiquity.

[@tylerellis9097]

Pekka Mäkelä, not that it mattered anymore though cause Byzantine goods which were of higher quality were now reaching western Markets directly and farer then ever before with the Crusades bringing Extensive new trade routes and markets to the Empire.

[@zacakafroztee]

Byzantines weren't the successor to Rome, they were STILL Rome.

[@waipalisrevenge3707]

Hey buddy,it'd be great if you could make some videos about the former Taprobane ,aka Sri Lanka and generally the former civilization of India.It's so underrated and yet so interesting

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I love your content so much that I'll never skip an ad, I'll do whatever my broke self can do to help you make a little money off this. Keep on, keeping on brotha!

[@xthief1037]

500k subs, congrats

[@SeanHiruki]

CHINESE THREE KINGDOMS SERIES WHEN

[@nqh4393]

Maybe when Total War 3K comes out so that he has the materials to use on.

[@silverrain530]

6:32 Back when "Made in China" was a good thing

[@apei281]

Still a good thing :)

[@hiimryan2388]

SilverRain sooooo litterally all of history?

[@yuanruichen2564]

it's still good given equal price

[@majortom4922]

If you can't afford high quality Chinese goods, don't say that Made in China is low quality. Just like silk, porcelain, and tea, only the rich can afford it, and the poor can only afford garbage.

[@eurasiaacaci.-110]

@@majortom4922 low quality

[@bedroslee]

Never taught at school about such a great Emperor Justinian and his General Belisarius. proud to learn about it through your channel.

[@TyrannosaurusRex5027]

Funny, I just made a recruitment poster for the Roman legions. Good job on this vital and extremely important aspect of Rome which is sadly little known. Keep up the great work!

[@imperiumgraecum9126]

Actually, this incident is(or, at least, used to be) taught in schools over here in Greece during medieval history classes for some decades now, so it does feel good to know the education system hasn't been completely surpassed by Internet.

[@joaquinandreu8530]

So is done in Spain.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

It's also taught in france because the king of great Britain bought mulberry trees to grow silkworms but the king of France fed him the wrong information so that Britain wouldn't have the correct mulberry trees for silk production. This meant that Britain could not compete with France in silk production. Indirectly you also should now about the Greeks taking silkworms from china

[@WaterShowsProd]

While in the u.s. they made us think that nobody knew about China until Marco Polo went there and "discovered" it. Then when I started asking why then did The Greeks and Romans have silk, they got all wall-eyed and told me to shut up.

[@Tazer183]

How many people are behind these videos just curious?

[@Tubejczyk]

me, my wife and her boyfriend

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@@Tubejczyk 🤣😂

[@Memeposting]

500k awesome been here since before 100k keep up the great content!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you very much :-)

[@MrMooemoney]

Great video as always ❤

[@seraaron]

I much prefer videos like these. I really don't care about the moment to moments of big battles. Please do more

[@KingsandGenerals]

Every Thursday! :-)

[@flagearvideo]

This is very insightful. Always wondered how the Roman Empire had such a big gold and silver crisis by the time of Diocletian... Turns out silk hemorraged a great empire out of its wealth! It also financed Rome´s great enemies, the Persians. Rome had no "star" product as a monopoly, and China did not import as much (except por the "celestial horses" of Central Asia). I wonder if today´s western deficits with China are not just a big historical remake...

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you! We need to expand on the topic

[@thedoruk6324]

Great upload; Great Channel 👍

[@AngidadGaming]

Loved the video❤

[@meteormedia7021]

Before watching your videos I‘d only ever heard about Justinian in the context of the corpus iuris civilis as part of his politics of restauration and it’s influence on european civil law for centuries in the form of ius commune. Thank you for teaching me something new today!

[@parvuspeach]

thank you for this video! Funny how history repeats itself. 1200 years later, in 1755 when the asian portuguese empire collapsed after the massive earthquake that hit continental Portugal, the guy in charge, Marquis de Pombal, created quite a few silk factories near Lisbon to make lower quality everyday silk, as a side effect a lot of small villages and towns exist today that started as mulberry plantations in that period.

[@MTWolfgang]

I just loved this video and the feed back that comes with it

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you very much!

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Well done! 👍🏻

[@ajithsidhu2792]

Nice vids kings and generals can you do one on the sikh/punjabi(Maharaja singhs empire) on the anexation of the afghan lands and submission of the iranian empire pls

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Ok Malay Archer what mods did they use?

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LOL!! AoE2 joke xD

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Such an awesome vid. Thanks from Asutralia

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching!

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[@fezzamanezza8415]

*blacksout*

[@pancakes3250]

Very interesting again, good job.

[@siechamontillado]

Hey, the Romans didn't steal silk as it was clearly stated that any data shared with the monks is for research purposes and doesn't violate the terms of the Chinese Imperial enterprise program.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Hm. :-)

[@KingsandGenerals]

No

[@catch_me_if_you_can6596]

NO!The export of silk from china was banned

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

Data shared which means purely intellectual and not physical. They smuggled the worms out which was banned for export.... Sooo the monks took more than just technical expertise which does violate the program.

[@mikedi7850]

Brilliant! as an Italian I approve this industrial theft. :') lol

[@viraloracle5151]

@@apostolosmate3361 the ruling elite were of Latin stock (migrated from mostly Italy), Greeks of Anatolia/modern turkey were most of their History ruled by a Foreign ruling elite. Persians-Romans and later Turks.

[@massimocecchini4207]

@@apostolosmate3361 No, I don't think so ( or maybe mentioned in one of the many non-mandatory insights which were being read only by me). If i remember correctly, our books are more focused on things like Justinian's Corpus Iuris and the early monastic period ( Saint Benedict of Nursia and stuff like that). And yes, roman élite spoke both in latin and in greek; Caesar's last words were, according to Suetonius, "καὶ σύ, τέκνον", not "Et tu Brute, fili mi".

[@massimocecchini4207]

@@apostolosmate3361 you're welcome!

[@tylerellis9097]

ita-eng subber, not true Tiberius iii was a Goth for example, their would be a few Armenian and Syrian Emperors as well. Manuel Komnenos was mostly Hungarian. With Greek and Bulgarian blood. But indeed to claim their was a Latin Aristocracy past 650 is dubious.

[@mikedi7850]

@@apostolosmate3361 I'm unsure my friend I'm indeed Italian but I don't live in Italy nor did i go to school there so I am unawares but I'm told Roman history is a huge part of Italian education :)

[@firstcenturion7539]

Love the economics, please do more!!!!!!!!!

[@hugobertrand1032]

You guys manage to make silk trading sound like the most interesting thing, impressive.

[@KingsandGenerals]

I promise, it is very interesting and affected so much. :-)

[@haroldbridges515]

Excellent video. Reminds me of how the Europeans eventually either stole from the Chinese or figured out on their own how to produce porcelain. Also, similar to how the British addiction to tea caused silver shortages in England in a later period. I would like to know more about the extent of the gold shortage caused by the silk trade and its role in the decline of the Roman Empire, about which I hadn't heard before. How about a brief economic history of the Roman Empire. Since we are on the subject of the economic history of empire, you might do a presentation on the role of cotton in the British Empire per the book "The Empire of Cotton." Americans, for one example, have little idea of their role in the global supply chain that drove the Industrial Revolution.

[@cheydinal5401]

Yes, but the trade deficit for sure wasn't the sole or even the main cause of the Crisis of the Third Century, or the fall of thr Western Roman Empire. "[...] led to" is NOT AT ALL the same thing as "[...] contributed to"

[@ThePalarax]

Great video! Really great video!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you!

[@deepsouth3319]

Fascinating, thanks very much.

[@denniscleary7580]

Sorry I’m late my Lord, shall not happen again. Thanks for another great video. 😁👍

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching :-)

[@sjinnie_boy4988]

Hey, I bought a hoodie from your merch store, and it said it was expected two arrive almost two weeks ago now, but it still hasn’t arrived...

[@Gizmomadug]

A Byzantine stole it.

[@basillah7650]

He clearly does not make them himself just his logo gets put on from a custom design shop.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Hey Sjinnie, can you contact us via [e-mail] please?

[@GGitten]

It’s insane how much i am in love with Kings and generals

[@KingsandGenerals]

[@jamestrevino7611]

Need more Cesar videos. Awesome how y'all break down the gual conquest

[@TPerm-hj4sf]

Now I understand why west always accuse China of industrial espionage. They practice it all the time.

[@0ld_Scratch]

when you play the Game of Monopoly you either win or you lose!

[@ssejr01]

Im loving these non battle vids

[@KingsandGenerals]

More every Thursday!

[@wuhui]

Great work!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@tovarishchsimonov289]

Pls make a video about the Scythians

[@KingsandGenerals]

Will consider!

[@user-xc1fq2qy8y]

Saint Justinian the great did many great things for the orthodox empire, also fixed Hagia Sophia.

[@gokhanbursa6227]

Keep it doing it is great to see

[@uninstaller2860]

2:11 That's a beautifully drawn map!

[@user-zo8hs4yh2h]

We WANT The Silk Road back!

[@user-yy8fv1qp5t]

Chris Koay So now China is pursuing the Belt and Road initiative.

[@matthewmann8969]

Silk not spilt milk

[@antoinemonks4187]

That was incredibly cool. 👏

[@tristanthorburn8473]

Interesting video, thank you.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching!

[@dflatt1783]

Crafty monks.