When did humans start using salt? Detailed answer

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When did humans start using salt?

Different people need different amounts of salt. But still, now all people in the world use salt for food. How was it in ancient times? After all, people could not get salt, although it was nearby. They just got along without it! Salt was unknown in much of America and India until it was brought there by the Europeans.

In parts of Africa, salt is still a luxury and only the rich can afford it. Salt is not particularly needed for people who eat mostly milk or meat. Especially if they eat raw meat or fried. They contain natural salts. But people who are on a vegetarian diet or eat boiled meat need more salt.

Man began to eat salt every day since he stopped leading a nomadic life in search of food. At one fine time, he switched to settled life, began to engage in agriculture, and the consumption of salt became a habit for him.

But salt has always been not only the powder that is poured into food. She has always been a symbol. For example, the phrase "Bread and salt" is used all over the world as a wish for good. In ancient times, when people worshiped the gods, salt was always included in the sacrifice and was sacred. To prevent food from spoiling, salt is also used. Therefore, it has become a symbol of durability, reliability.

In biblical times, when people wanted to make a pact or agreement, they did so at a meal with salt as a symbol of assurance. Therefore, in the Bible there is an expression "salt contract". The more people got used to the daily use of salt, the more necessary it became. Salt became an important trade item.

One of the oldest roads in Italy is called Via Salaria, which means "salt road", because salt was transported along it. In English, the word "salary" arose from the word "salt", because in the days of ancient Rome, officers and soldiers of the army received a cash subsidy for salt.

Author: Likum A.

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Who discovered Alaska?

When white people appeared in Alaska, they discovered that Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians live here. Alaska is one of the largest territories in the world ever discovered and developed by a white man. At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, Russian sailors were moving through Siberia to the Pacific Ocean.

In 1728, Vitus Bering, a Dane in the service of the Russian government, sailed east of Kamchatka. He sailed along the island of St. Lawrence, but did not reach mainland Alaska. In 1741, Bering led a second expedition on two small ships. He commanded one of these ships, the St. Peter, and the St. Paul was commanded by Alexei Chirikov. The ships were scattered by the storm, but they both reached Alaska.

For the next two centuries, Russian hunters hunted furs in the waters of Alaska. They founded many settlements, and in many places there are still quaint churches built by the Aleuts and Indians under the leadership of Russian missionaries. Subsequently, the coast of Alaska was mastered by the sailors of Spain, France and Great Britain. But it was the Russians who used Alaska as a source of furs, which they supplied in huge quantities to European capitals. Then the number of fur animals began to decrease, and by the 1820s, the Russians began to leave the coast of Alaska.

Russian Tsar Alexander II was not too interested in Alaska. Lincoln-era Secretary of State William H. Seward persuaded his government to buy Alaska from the Russians, and in 1867 Alaska was sold to the United States for $7, less than two cents an acre! Today Alaska is not just the forty-ninth state of the USA, the value of this territory can hardly be measured in dollars!

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