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Safavid Silk: The Empire Woven in Thread
In this episode of the Safavid Empire series, Lucas and Luna explore the empire's vast silk industry — the economic engine that funded Isfahan's grand architecture, underwrote diplomatic gifts, and connected Persia to markets from Venice to Mughal India. They trace the journey of raw silk from the mulberry groves of Gilan and Mazandaran to the bazaars of Aleppo and the looms of the Armenian merchants of New Julfa. Along the way, they examine how Shah Abbas I leveraged silk as a tool of statecraft, the role of the Armenian trade network, the fiscal policies that controlled production, and the…
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