Salt

Salt Salt started being traded at least 4,000 years ago; the proof is that the Ancient Egyptians used it to preserve their mummies; the Egyptians wouldn’t have survived without it. It was not suitable for plants to grow in the Sahara’s dry season; they needed to preserve the food harvested in the harvest season. The Egyptians needed salt for a better reason than us but humans need salt to survive. Plenty of races used salt as a currency, now it is just sold.

Salt is used to preserve food and that’s what makes it precious, If a country produces a lot of salt it could become a major country, currently the US produces the most salt but a long time ago things where different, only since the US independence the US produced salt.

In Ancient China only the rulers could sell salt, they used it to pay for they’re famous wall and there army, in Ancient Rome salt was the cities secret, the famous road Via Solaria-Salt Road lead to a salt deposit and almost all the other roads running into Rome lead to a salt deposit. In ancient Rome salt was considered common so the emperors only controlled the price, they gave it for free when they needed supporters. After the Roman Empire fell Venice and Genoa fought for the Roman salt empire, Venice defeated Genoa making them dominant for a century, people like Marco Polo went to Asia to trade salt for silk and special spices. In the 1500 a lot of fish was being caught in northern Europe, because it was to cold to make salt there to preserve the fish, northern nations started bartering with southern European countries, they gave fish for salt. The Chibchan tribe in Columbia had the salt of the Americas. By Daniel

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