2. write a short paragraph expressing your ideas about the chinese and silk production. why do you think they so carefully guarded the secret of how to produce silk?

Back in the ancient times, and even about 400 years ago, silk was super valuable. First of all, because absolutely no one, knew the secret the make silk except the Chinese. The reason the Chinese guarded this recipe is simple. Silk was super expensive and valuable, and if other people knew the secret, it would become more common, less valuable, and the Chinese economy, along with the Silk business, would just do a complete free fall into the ground. 

An example of a political opponent would be albert einstein hitler hated him because he was jewish a pacifist