Why is it said that salt has a prominent history?

               Salt was a precious commodity among the ancient Jews, Greeks, Chinese and Hittites. The Assyrians were the first people to use salt in the military practice of salting the earth. Later, this was adopted by many others.

               It was in the present-day Austrian town of Hallstatt, near Salzburg (Salt Town), during the 1st millennium BC, that the very first salt mine in Europe was established. In Britain, the deliberate production of salt was first practiced in the early Iron Age by the Celts.

               Salt, obviously, had high demand, and became a powerful commodity in the entire world economy easily. Some of the world’s earliest trade routes linked sources of salt to human settlements. Moreover, salt resources gradually became the ultimate factor in determining the location of the world’s great cities. Liverpool is an excellent example. It rose from being just an English port, to become the prime port for its salt export.

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