Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 10 | 6 | View more quotes about rather">Rather, with the control of watering points at the oasis, it is unnecessary. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 10 | 3 | The Silk War was a war for the control of certain caravan routes, for the rights to levy raider tribute on journeying merchants. |
| 10 | 4 | It was called the Silk War because, at that time, Turian silk first began to be imported in bulk to the Tahari communities, and northward to Tor and Kasra, thence to Ar, and points north and west. |
| 10 | 5 | Raider tribute, it might be noted, is no longer commonly levied in the Tahari. |
| 10 | 6 | Rather, with the control of watering points at the oasis, it is unnecessary. |
| 10 | 7 | To these points must come caravans. |
| 10 | 8 | At the oases, it is common for the local pashas to exact a protection tax from caravans, if they are of a certain length, normally of fifty kaiila or more. |
| 10 | 9 | The protection tax helps to defray the cost of maintaining soldiers, who, nominally, at any rate, police the desert. |
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The Silk War was a war for the control of certain caravan routes, for the rights to levy raider tribute on journeying merchants.
It was called the Silk War because, at that time, Turian silk first began to be imported in bulk to the Tahari communities, and northward to Tor and Kasra, thence to Ar, and points north and west.
Raider tribute, it might be noted, is no longer commonly levied in the Tahari.
Rather, with the control of watering points at the oasis, it is unnecessary.
To these points must come caravans.
At the oases, it is common for the local pashas to exact a protection tax from caravans, if they are of a certain length, normally of fifty kaiila or more.
The protection tax helps to defray the cost of maintaining soldiers, who, nominally, at any rate, police the desert.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)