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Sea salt was discovered several thousand years ago, from then, it plays important roles in different part of human life: food, tradition, mythology, medical treatment, religion and economy. Because of its importances, a "salt route" was created by ancient people to start their salt trading to areas where salt can not be produced. It was said that the Phoenician people mastered the extraction and trading the salt. But it was the Romans who made the salt trading market explored world wide. (SaltWorks,2001)

The salt trading did not only rise the economy, but it also brought the building and contraction of new cities along the "salt route". For example, one city named Salzburg which means the city of salt was build along the road of salt called Salaria in Italy.(SaltWorks,2001)There was another city of salt located in Germany called Halle that its response is to connect salt mines to shipping ports in Baltic. In history, salt was also used as money to exchange other subjects in various regions.(MSC,1882) In ancient time, sick people were soaked into salt spring to heal their illness. Nowadays, spas offer salt bath, using salt to scrub dead skins and to relive stress.( Real Salt, n.d)

Salt was also been mythologized in different religions. For example, there are some content about the myth of salt in the Old Testament. It also appeared in the history of Jewish culture. Ancient Hebrews believed that salt was the symbol for the joy of join around table and having their food. In romans' tradition, a piece of salt was rubbed on the baby in his eighth day of birth to expel demons and evils. Moreover, offering bread and salt to visitors in ancient Rome was considered as hospitality. (MSC,1882) Also, dropping the salt on floor was considered as bad luck in several european countries such as Scotland. There are even a significant evidence to show people's belief in salt in da Vinci's The Last Super, Judas who had betrayed Jesus dropped saltcellar in front of him carelessly.(SaltWorks,2001)

There are also many interesting facts about salt and vocabularies. For instance, the word "salary" comes from "salt" due to its high value and restriction in production which gave salt the role in trading and currency method in ancient period ;"salad" is also originated from "salt" because ancient Romans salted their green leafy vegetables. Other derived words such as "sauce", "sausage" has come from Latin word "sal" that all show some kind of relation with salt. (TGLC, n.d)

References Malden Salt Company (1882). Salt-An Amazing History. Retrieved March 21, 2016, from http://www.maldonsalt.co.uk/About-Salt-Salt-an-amazing-history.html

References SaltWorks (2001). History of salt. Retrieved March 21, 2016, from https://www.seasalt.com/salt-101/history-of-salt/

References The Green Living Centre (n.d). History of ancient salt. Retrieved March 21, 2016, from https://thegreenlivingcenter.com/node/134

Reference Real Salt (n.d). A brief history of salt. Retrieved March 21, 2016, from http://www.realsalt.com/sea-salt/a-brief-history-of-salt/

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Liushiye (talk • contribs) 12:49, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

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Why is this half-finished draft, with a silly title, duplicating an article that already exists, in mainspace? Please move it back to a sandbox forthwith. Pinkbeast (talk) 19:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)