6 мар. 2019 г. · In addition, salt was always in great demand in order to better preserve dried meat and to give added taste to food. The savannah region south ...

17 февр. 2018 г. · Salt was needed to flavor food, preserve food, its used for medical purposes ad to keep the body healthy. In West Africa salt was hard to obtain so its going ...

28 сент. 2023 г. · Salt was valuable in West Africa during the medieval period due to its scarcity and vital uses in human life and food preservation.

This trade was crucial to the states of West Africa as gold was used by much of the world as currency, and salt was important as a preservative and chemical ...

11 мая 2017 г. · Salt was invaluable in West Africa for its use in preventing dehydration and preserving food, and due to its scarcity, it functioned like a ...

22 нояб. 2024 г. · Also in West Africa, gold mined south of the Sahel was traded, pound for pound, for salt mined in the desert. This sounds doubtful, given that ...

Rock salt, mined in the heart of the Sahara, was among the most important of these. Salt, which is scarce in West Africa, is essential to human life.

29 нояб. 2023 г. · Salt from the Sahara desert was one of the major trade goods of ancient West Africa where very little naturally occurring deposits of the mineral could be ...

People living in hot climates need salt to replace what the body loses in sweat. Much of the salt used by people of West Africa came from Taghaza, a city in the ...