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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1454313, member: 26302&quot;]Well, not rare so much as many societies across Asia basically ran their countries on the taxes on the silk road trade. The Parthians and later Sassanids especially, basically built their societies on the wealth of this trade crossing their country from China and somewhat Central Asia to Rome. It was estimated that silk cost over 100 times more in Rome than in China at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pricing issue of Diocletian was a failure of course, as previous edicts like Wang Mang and others had been, and every similar edict since. Even Ford and Carter tried similar measures. The one issue with using this to look at prices at the time is these were the &quot;official&quot; prices, so basically you need to understand you could not buy very many things at these prices. Most items sold for more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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