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Visigoth king Alaric in 408 exacts a tribute of 3,000-5,000 pounds of what from Rome?

pepper. At the time, pepper was rumored to be a medicinal spice and was often used to disguise spoilage in meats.

Rome founded Londinium (London) in which year?

43. What Rome stumbled upon had begun about 400 B.C. and was built by Celtic king Belin. He had rebuilt an earthen wall surrounding a few dozen huts in the area where the Walbrook joins the Thames and had ordered a landing area be cut into it along the riverfront. The 'town' eventually was called Billinsgate by the time the Romans came.

The first distinction between measles and smallpox was made in which year?

900. Chief Surgeon Rhazes (Abu-Bakr Muhammed ibn-Zakariya' al-Razi), working at a busy Baghdad hospital, gave the first description of smallpox and established criteria for diagnosing the disease. Those criteria were used until the 18th century.

The European silk industry began when?

552. Emperor Justinian sent missionaries to China and Ceylon, but their main purpose was to "convert" silkworms to Christianity, smuggling them in from the Orient.

Which of the following was NOT a sought-after Roman commodity when the Central Asians began sending regular trading caravans in the 100s?

bronze. Yep, they wanted asbestos. The Asians would barter silk, Chinese ginger, and cassia (a type of cinnamon) for: asbestos cloth, glassware, pottery, gold, silver, grape wine, coral beads, and intaglio gems.

The first Arab coins were minted in which year?

695.

How did Rome's emperor Septimus end the northern African Leptis Magna region's trade recession in 204?

He bought the country's entire olive oil supply.. The olive oil was then distributed free of charge in Rome.

Buddhism arrives in Korea from China during which year?

372.

The first paper mill in the Muslim world is built at Samarkand in which year?

751. Two Chinese prisoners revealed Chinese papermaking techniques to their captors.

"The Diamond Sutra" was produced in which year?

868. Well, I'll tell you what the heck it is: the world's first printed book. It was found by archaeologists in the Caves of a Thousand Buddhas at Kansu.