In the centuries following Chang Chi'en journey to Central Asia, traders began using his route to carry all sorts of luxury goods between China and Europe. Europeans named it the Silk Road. because silk was top of their list when shopping for Chinese luxuries.
[For centuries no one outside China knew how silk was made. The punishment for giving away the secret was death. Then, in the 550s CE, the Roman emperor sent two monks to China as spies. Cleverly, they hid silkworm caterpilar eggs in their walking sticks and managed to smuggle them out of China - the secret was out!]
*[Silk thread comes from the cocoons of silk worm caterpillars that much away on mulberry leaves.]
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