What Was the Silk Road? Trade Routes and Cultural Exchange

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Pliny's 100-million figure was the combined drain to India, China, and Arabia, not specifically Chinese silk; ~50 million was for India alone.

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   Body content (verified): 'Pliny the Elder estimated that Rome spent about 100 million sesterces annually on luxuries from India, China, and Arabia combined (with roughly 50 million sesterces going to India alone).'

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   No change needed. The body content already correctly presents the ~100 million sesterces figure as the combined drain to India, China, and Arabia, with the ~50 million figure specifically for India alone. The FAQ field contains no mention of Pliny or sesterces, so there is no residual fabrication anywhere on the page.

   Why: Full verification pass across body content and FAQ field found the correction already fully and correctly applied with no residual fabrication (no separate bibliography entry exists for this ancient-source figure). No fix was necessary; recording the verified current (already-correct) text.

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