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Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire
In the mid-6th century AD, two monks, with the support of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, successfully smuggled silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire, which led to the establishment of an indigenous Byzantine silk industry. This acquisition of silk worms from China allowed the Byzantines to have a monopoly of silk in Europe.
==Background==
Silk, which was first produced sometime during the fourth millennium BC by the Chinese, was a valuable trade commodity along the Silk Road.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Silk )〕 By the first century AD, there was a steady flow of silk into the Roman Empire.〔 With the rise of the Sassanid Empire and the subsequent Roman–Persian Wars, importing silk to Europe was increasingly difficult and expensive. The Persians strictly controlled trade in their territory and would suspend trade in times of war.〔Norwich, John (1988), ''Byzantium: The Early Centuries'' pg. 265〕 Consequently, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, tried creating alternative trade routes to Sogdiana, which at the time had become a major silk-producing centre:〔Clare, Israel (1906), Library of Universal History: Mediaeval History pg. 1590〕 one to the north via the Crimea, and one to the south via Ethiopia.〔Norwich, pg. 266〕 The failure of these efforts led Justinian I to look elsewhere.
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