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Just so, why was the Grand Canal so important to China?
It was during the Sui Dynasty that the Grand Canal was built. Emperor Yang of the Sui wanted a quicker and more efficient way of transporting grain to his capital city at Beijing. He also needed to supply his army that guarded northern China from the Mongols.
What did the Grand Canal connect?
Grand Canal (China)
| Grand Canal of China | |
|---|---|
| Start point | Beijing |
| End point | Hangzhou |
| Connects to | Hai River, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangzi River, Qiantang River |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site |
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Who created Silk Road?
In October 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shut down the website and arrested Ross Ulbricht under charges of being the site's pseudonymous founder "Dread Pirate Roberts". On 6 November 2013, Silk Road 2.0 came online, run by former administrators of Silk Road.
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Who created the Silk Road in China?
The German terms Seidenstraße and Seidenstraßen ("the Silk Road(s)") were coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen, who made seven expeditions to China from 1868 to 1872. The term Silk Route is also used.
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What was China's Silk Road?
Silk Road, also called Silk Route, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward, and wools, gold, and silver went east.
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Why did the silk road come to an end?
The discovery of a sea route from Europe to Asia in the late 15th century dealt a damaging blow to the Silk Road trade again. With less cost, harassment and danger, many goods and materials that the Silk Road could not transfer were conveyed through the sea route.
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What did the Silk Road do for China?
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce between 130 BCE-1453 CE. Polo, and later von Richthofen, make mention of the goods which were transported back and forth on the Silk Road.
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What countries were connected by the Silk Road?
While many different kinds of merchandise traveled along the Silk Road, the name comes from the popularity of Chinese silk with the west, especially with Rome. The Silk Road routes stretched from China through India, Asia Minor, up throughout Mesopotamia, to Egypt, the African continent, Greece, Rome, and Britain.
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When was silk first made?
Chinese legend gives the title Goddess of Silk to Lady Hsi-Ling-Shih, wife of the mythical Yellow Emperor, who was said to have ruled China in about 3000 BC. She is credited with the introduction of silkworm rearing and the invention of the loom.
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How silk was discovered in China?
According to well-established Chinese legend, Empress Hsi Ling Shi, wife of Emperor Huang Ti (also called the Yellow Emperor), was the first person to accidentally discover silk as weavable fiber. One day, when the empress was sipping tea under a mulberry tree, a cocoon fell into her cup and began to unravel.
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Do silkworms die in the making of silk?
Yarn for a silk saree is usually produced by throwing live cocoons of silkworm into boiling water. A single saree needs upto 50,000 cocoons. Rajaiah allows the moth to escape from the cocoon by waiting for 7-10 days and then uses the shells to produce yarn.
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Why silk is not vegan?
Silk fabric is made from the silk that is spun by silkworms when they form the cocoons for their pupal stage, before becoming a moth. Harvesting of this silk directly harms these creatures so, because vegans do not use products that exploit animals, vegans do not use silk.
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Why do silkworms make silk?
Silkworms are the offspring of moths . They spew out thread from tiny holes in their jaws, which they use to spin into their egg-bearing cocoons. This entire production takes a mere 72 hours, during which time they produce between 500-1200 silken threads.
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Is silk fabric expensive?
silk is the delicate string like subsatance that comes from small insects called silk worms. In order to gain silk from these insects they must be killed and their silk winded up tight to make silk that is strong enough to make clothes. This is an expensive process and the silk worms are rare and hard to find.
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What does a silk worm turn into?
The silkworm (Bombyx mori) is the larva or caterpillar of the Bombyx mori moth. Silde for at least 5000 years in China. The moth is important because it makes the silk, and no longer lives in the wild. Silkworms eat mulberry leaves, and were native to northern China.
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Do silkworms need water?
It is especially important that silkworms are fed mulberry leaves during their last three weeks of rapid growth. Silkworms do not need water but must be fed fresh, moist mulberry leaves daily. They will not eat wet, wilted or dead leaves.
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Are Silkworms poisonous?
In fact, some of them are poisonous, both to consume and to the touch. When touched, these structures can break and the poison is released. Reactions run the range from mild stinging and itching to intense pain and, in the case of the giant silkworm moth caterpillar, even death.
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Is it safe to touch a caterpillar?
Generally speaking, the majority of caterpillars pose no risk. These caterpillars would be poisonous but not fatal if swallowed, but are not dangerous in any way to touch. Children can safely touch them or have them crawl on their hands. However, be careful!
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Do butterflies bite you?
Butterflies don't bite because they can't. Caterpillars munch on leaves and eat voraciously with their chewing mouthparts, and some of them do bite if they feel threatened. But once they become butterflies, they only have a long, curled proboscis, which is like a soft drinking straw—their jaws are gone.