Introduction:
Salt is a very important mineral in humans every day life. Humans use it as a preservative for food, deicing roads and even for seasoning their foods.
Salty Language:
Around 300 BC salt was difficult to acquire, which made it very valuable(“Salt Works,” 2014). In some places, this highly valued trade item was a form of currency. Salary is derived from the Latin word “Salarium”. Salarium was a word used to describe payments to Roman soldiers in salt (“Salt in History,” 2010).
Salami is derived from the Italian word “sale”. The original meaning of sale meant all kinds of salted meats(“Salt in History,” 2010). Salad is derived from the Latin word “salata”. Salata meant salted vegetables, as the Romans would season their greens with salt (“Salad,” 2014). Hallstatt derives from the Celtic word “hall” which means salt. The town of Hallstatt, Austria is well known for its production of Salt dating all the way back to 5000 BC. Hallstatt is also home to the oldest known salt mine (“Hallstatt Salt Worlds, 2014).
How we Obtain Salt
Mining for salts is very similar to mining other rocks and minerals. Salt can be buried deep underground. The salt is buried there do to changes of the earth’s tectonic plates over long periods of time. Shafts are made to drill deep into the deposit of the mine where the salt is crushed. Conveyor belts are then used to bring the crushed salt to the surface. The end result of mining for salt is rock salt. Rock salt has many uses but one of the main uses is road salt to de ice roads (“How Salt Works,” 2014). Mechanical evaporation for salts begins by adding water to underground salt deposits. As the water evaporates, you are left with large salt crystals. The crystals are the...
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The first American use of road salt was in New Hampshire in 1938. By 1942, 5,000 tons of salt was used nationwide (Kelly, et.al.). Today, it is estimated that 15,000,000 tons of salt are used on roads in the winter; a 300,000-percent increase (Kelly, et.al.). Road salt is leaving a detrimental effect on the environment and discontinuation is vital to keeping plants, animals, and humans safe and healthy. Road salt is a key component to staying safe in the winter, but it is not safe for the environment. Scientists are looking for alternatives to road salt that are both more effective and safer for the environment.
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The rock salt, is easily one of the most used and consumed mineral in the average everyday life. From seasoning food to helping a sore throat, salt is used without the thought of its effects on many wars, cultures, government, religions, and the economy. Author Mark Kurlansky, informs the reader of the history of salt by taking them through different cultures and time periods in the book Salt: A World History. He touches on different areas around the world and how they used salt for their own needs. From being one of the most wanted rocks in the world, to easily being purchased at the supermarket, salt has gone through a long and tiring journey.
There were other standards of money in different places. There were different clay tokens. People who were not as wealthy as those who paid in silver paid in less valuable metals like copper, tin, and lead, but mostly barley.
The salt as Jesus describes in this passage is common in this area due to the Dead Sea. There are several uses of salt in New Testament times being a seasoning to bring out flavor and aroma, a preservative to slow meat decay, or in small amounts a fertilizer to grow healthy crops. Due to this variety of uses of salt, the application could be intended as a broad application instead of specific. Jews regarded salt as a basic life need. Furthermore, an ancient Roman official is known to have commented that “there is nothing more useful than salt and sunshine”. (Zondervan background commentary)
As humans developed and became sophisticated we needed ways other than just barter to exchange goods. Currency began in Anatolia in 12,000 BC with the distribution of obsidian to the people. In 9,000 BC trade began in the Mediterranean with the use of grain and cattle as a way to trade. (Wikipedia) In these times money was based on their marketability and utility, this means that although they did not use what we think as currency at this time such as coins and bills, if they were an agricultural society they would trade grains for cereals and things that involved grain because of their process ability. The use of gold was traced back to the fourth millennium BC in Egypt and the use of silver at the same time in Mesopotamia. Ancient Greece used similar coinage that began approximately in 700 BC. There are three periods in the time of Ancient Greece. The Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods, all of which have a different variation of currency.
Diamonds can be found in alluvial, or loose earthy material deposited by running water, formations. Alluvial mining is done by the open-pit method. The process involves removing the overlying barren ground, digging up the bearing ground, and then extracting the diamonds. In Sierra Leone the technology involves shovel and pan, with some hand sloshing to gravitate diamond to the bottom of the pan so that it can be sorted out.
There are several types of mining, these include strip mining also known as open cast or surface mining. This type of mining is where you scrap away at the Earth
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II) Etymological change Proto-Germanic *saltan Indo- European *sal-d-om ~ Old English salt, sealt Before 1100 sealt 13th salit 14-16th salte 16-17th sault Cognate with
Rome, salt was used as part of the salary to the soldiers. From this, we can
As Blainey (p.410) mentions, “their daily life was ruled by the sun and the rain”, if the weather didn’t permit, little to no work was done that day, life was difficult and life was all about manual labour to get the jobs done. They did not fuss over the little things, like what they looked like that day, they did what they had to do to survive. Sometimes they would earn their meals as a form of payment but mostly they had to scavenge for it themselves. “Salt was the one common food to be carried long distances’ Blainey (p.414) tells us, he clarifies “to own a salt mine in Europe, was to won a goldmine”. The salt business was a profitable business in 1500’s and everyone used sa...