古希腊著名历史学家希罗多德曾记述公元前480年发生在希腊的一次大规模战争。当时有几个国家的军队入侵希腊,其中利比亚人披着笨重的兽皮,亚述人身着粗糙的亚麻军服,而印度人却穿着轻盈的棉布军装。这场战争对广大人民来说无疑是一场浩劫,而棉花,这个传奇式的珍贵农作物,却由此在地中海沿岸的一些国家迅速传播开来。 Herodotus, a famous ancient Greek historian, chronicles a large-scale war in Greece in 480 BC. Several armies at that time invaded Greece, in which the Libyan people wore clunky skins, Assyrian people in rough linen uniforms, while Indians wore light-weight cotton armor. The war was undoubtedly a catastrophe for the general public, and cotton, the legendary precious crop, was quickly spread in some countries along the Mediterranean coast.