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Originally Posted by Prince Charon
Egyptian silk would be a very popular cloth, much like Egyptian cotton. Yes, I would say there's a lot of money in that, so long as Iron Age Egypt can cultivate the white mulberry bush. Can they?
It also might mean the collapse of the Silk Road, as transportation is expensive: Why pay for silk from far off China, when you can just send a ship to Egypt and get it for a fraction of the price?
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Yes the knock on effects would be vast. But the silk road survived Mediterranean silk production until De Gamma's voyages.