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

Answer: The Chinese are a highly advanced culture. They made the first medicine and for the longest time the only producer of silk. The Chinese guarded the secret of silk for many because silk is a high priced product and the Chinese would profit more by being the only producer of silk. Then two monks discovered silk worms and smuggled the worms out of the country. This is how other western countries learned how to make silk