2. Write a short paragraph expressing your ideas about the Chinese and silk production. Why do you think they so carefully guarded the secret of how to produce silk?

Back in those days silk cost a lot of money. The Chinese were the only people that knew how to make it. They guarded it so well because it was very expensive so they knew if they hid it from the world they would get money. So if everyone else had the recipe it would come more popular and less expensive

Back in the ancient times, and even about 400 years ago, silk was super valuable. First of all, because absolutely no one, knew the secret the make silk except the Chinese. The reason the Chinese guarded this recipe is simple. Silk was super expensive and valuable, and if other people knew the secret, it would become more common, less valuable, and the Chinese economy, along with the Silk business, would just do a complete free fall into the ground.