The Chinese tried to keep it a secret but failed. Some Byzantine monk successfully stole it.
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Two Nestorian monks, in fact
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That was the supreme act of industrial theft. Smuggling those silkworms across the known world.
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@HadleyBishop@dividedline618@HbdNrx Exponential growth of space/traversal time/shrinkage reduced nat intellectual prop life? -
Well, we also intentionally went in for foreign direct investment
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