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The first people in Eurasia to grow cotton fiber for article of clothing and towels and sheets were the Harappan people in India, nearly 2500 BC. We know because people wrote roughly cotton in theRig Veda, and that was written about 600 BC in India. Egyptian farmers also grew a little bit of cotton, alone cotton never became very important inEgypt, where people in general wore linen clothing.

In the 400s BC, a  Hellenic historian, Herodotus, wrote that in India there were trees growing wild, which produce a change of woollen better than sheeps wool in debaucher and quality, which the Indians use for making their clothes ( check III, and again in Book VII, where Herodotus tells us that Indians fighting in Xerxes army were dressed in cotton). Around this time, the Ajanta Cave carvings show that cotton growers in India had invented a roller machine to get the seeds out of the cotton.
By the Guptan period, about 200 AD, the Indians make a good business of change cotton as a luxury to the Parthians to their west and to the Chineseto their east. The Romans, only away, thought of cotton as an expensive luxury analogous silk. They had to buy it from Arabic or Parthian traders. The Roman encyclopedia writer Pliny reported that in India there were trees that bear wool and balls of down from which an expensive linen material for clothes is made (Pliny Book XII 38).




Soon afterwards in the 500s AD, the Sassanians were for certain growing cotton, at least at the city of Merv in their eastern possessions.

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The English word for cotton comes from the Arabic qutun. The establishment of the  Islamic Empirein the late 600s AD gave a big push to cotton production, which spread westward across the Islamic Empire to sum Africa and Spain (which...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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