What actually moved

Han Chinese weave structures in Syria, and Chinese thread rewoven locally

That Palmyra produced its own silk from imported worms

That Roman writers invented the trade in Chinese silk

That silk reached Syria only after the third century CE

True

False

India traded directly with Rome and ran a surplus settled in coin, while the overland route was a relay settled locally at each leg

Central Asian rulers melted all foreign coin by law

Roman merchants never carried coin overland

The Tarim climate destroys metal

A market administered closely enough for a government to fix prices

A price list dominated by ordinary local goods rather than exotica

Most commodities graded into three qualities

Detailed customs receipts for goods arriving from the Mediterranean

That the object moved, which is consistent with trade, gift, loot, migration or inheritance

That a regular commercial route ran between Rome and China

That Chinese glassmakers had learned Roman techniques

That the tomb's occupant had travelled to the Mediterranean

Commanded the armies and in several states became the rulers

Were freed by law within a generation of purchase

Were used only as household servants

Refused to fight and were replaced by Persian troops