Timeline for How would civilization have evolved if salt was a common resource?
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| Apr 12, 2016 at 16:13 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | Just FYI: not all salts are the same. The dead sea is overwhelmingly not sodium chloride ("table salt") but rather other salts, like magnesium bromide. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 15:55 | comment | added | JRover | For the climate part, i already explained it in the comments so i'll just drop a link here (in short: dry mediterranean = rain on Italy, strange as it may sound) | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 15:55 | comment | added | JRover | Thanks for answering, but be aware that salt isn’t gold so it isn't precious (just) because of its rarity but also and especially for its inherent utility (food preservation, dietary requirements, as a component for fertilizers, used in pottery and soaps manufacturing etc.) so there will always be salt trading even if its cost is ridiculously low and that's was the point of my question. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 15:36 | comment | added | coburne | but by the same token, it doesn't matter how much fresh water and food you have if you don't have the requisite salt for making beef jerky and funyuns. Just something to think about. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 12:32 | history | answered | Murphy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |