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Salt has played a prominent role in determining the power and location of the world's great cities. Liverpool rose from just a small English port to become the prime exporting port for the salt dug in the great Cheshire salt mines and thus became the entrepôt for much of the world's salt in the 19th century. [5]
Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 (represented by the Roman numeral I) through AD 100 (C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the 1st century AD or 1st century CE to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical ...
The first of the great Roman Empire roads, the Via Salaria or Salt Road was built for transporting salt. [10] The Roman army required salt for their soldiers and horses and often Roman soldiers were paid in salt as it was seen as a valuable currency at the time.
Salt was abundant in Aksum and was traded quite frequently. [81] [82] It benefited from a major transformation of the maritime trading system that linked the Roman Empire and India. This change took place around the start of the first century. The older trading system involved coastal sailing and many intermediary ports.
According to that document, King Otto I the Great granted the St. Michaelis Monastery in Lüneburg the customs revenue from the saltworks. Even at those early times, the city's wealth was based in large part on the salt found in the area. [2] The Old Salt Route attained its peak of success between the 12th and the 16th century. [1]
Ghana was the master of an extensive trade system in the Senegal river valley, first established by Takrur in the 10th century, that exported salt from Awlil throughout the region. It also controlled the gold mines of Bambuk. [56]
Site of Kinderton Salt Works (1980s) It is likely that this is the only saltworks next to the Roman fort on Harbutt's field. Salt making sites in Cheshire [8] places this site at SJ703668 Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, however the 1882 Ordnance Survey map places the salt pans at approximately SJ7032266605 Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, whilst Middlewich ...