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Identifikator:: 883823179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-4396

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: König, Joseph http://d-nb.info/gnd/119182084

Title:: Die Untersuchung landwirtschaftlich und gewerblich wichtiger Stoffe

Edition:: Dritte, neubearbeitete Auflage

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verlagsbuchhandlung Paul Parey

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 1083 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: Untersuchung von Boden

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK were the only people who had it. They kept their monopoly of it for a thousand years. They forbade anyone to take silk goods or silkworms out of China. They wanted silk all to themselves. When the Emperor and Empress died, the Chinese built altars to their memory. They planted mulberry trees around these altars. The great Confucius wrote about what they had done and the Chinese have never forgotten it. The people of Europe knew nothing about silk until about 2,275 years ago. Then Alexander the Great captured great quantities of silk goods in the East and brought them home to his palaces in Greece and Macedonia. Very soon afterwards, the Romans learned how to make silk goods. They made them into garments in Sicily and Venice. No doubt, when the Romans came to England, they brought silk clothes and used them on State occasions. But when the Romans left England, there was little or no silk in England for a thousand years. There was only wool, linen and leather.

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