Full edit: What Was the Silk Road? Trade Routes and Cultural Exchange
Correction by Emir Baycan · accepted 12 July 2026
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−Pliny the Elder estimated that Rome spent 100 million sesterces annually on Chinese silk and other eastern luxuries
+Pliny the Elder estimated that Rome spent about 100 million sesterces annually on luxuries from India, China, and Arabia combined (with roughly…