Your property tax bill is based on the assessed value of your property, any exemptions you qualify for and a property tax rate. The assessed value of your property is determined on a certain date.
Although these techniques were strictly controlled by imperial decree, eventually silkworms were smuggled out to establish sericulture in Korea, Japan, and India. It seems to be first produced in China around 3000 BC. Silk was spun in ancient China from silkworms (b<i>ombyx mori</i>) as early as 5000 BC. Over the period from 2700 BC to 1600 BC, domestication techniques enabled extensive production of silk thread and cloth.
While the term is of modern coinage, the Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk (and horses) carried out along its length, beginning during the Han dynasty (207 BCE â 220 CE).