ANCIENT CHINA - SILK
Who discovered sericulture (the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk)? - Answer- Leizu (Wife of the Yellow Emperor)
How did Leizu discover sericulture? - Answer- A silkworm cocoon fell into her tea, and the heat unwrapped the silk.
Silkworms eat leaves from _______...
ANCIENT CHINA - SILK
Who discovered sericulture (the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk)? - Answer-
Leizu (Wife of the Yellow Emperor)
How did Leizu discover sericulture? - Answer- A silkworm cocoon fell into her tea,
and the heat unwrapped the silk.
Silkworms eat leaves from _________ trees. - Answer- mulberry
What do you boil before unraveling silk? - Answer- cocoons
What dies when you boil the cocoons? - Answer- the silkworm (pupa)
What two classes of people were NOT allowed to wear silk? - Answer- merchants
and peasants
What two classes of people wore silk? - Answer- royalty and nobles
Silk was even used as ________ during some Ancient Chinese dynasties. - Answer-
money
Anyone caught telling the secret or taking silkworms out of China were
_____________. - Answer- killed
The Chinese managed to keep silk a secret for over ___________. - Answer- 1000
years
How did the secret of silkworms get out? - Answer- Two monks from the Byzantine
Empire smuggled silkworm eggs out with bamboo walking sticks
Peasants were not allowed to wear silk until the _______ dynasty. - Answer- Qing
Trade route from Europe to China is known as the _________. - Answer- Silk Road
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