Why was salt so valuable in Africa?

Answer 1

One of the biggest needs for salt was to preserve food, particularly meat. Salt was hard to come by in West Africa, but they were able to pan for gold. In North Africa, it was just the opposite. It was easy for them to mine salt, but not gold. Eventually trade routes were set up and West African people regularly traded their gold for salt from the North.

Answer 2

Gold was important because it was used for money, and mostly ceremonies. The salt was important because it helped them preserve their food, it gave flavor to their food, and it was used to heal people.

Answer 3

Salt has been used as a food preservative since ancient times. The word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt because the Roman Legions were sometimes paid in salt, which was literally worth its weight in gold. Moorish merchants traded salt for gold, weight for weight, during the 6th century.

Answer 4

To flavour food

To preserve food

Answer 5

salt made form food spoiling and good health

Answer 6

Back then salt was used to be used as a building material.

Answer 7

salt was important because it kept food from spoiling

Answer 8

it helped people cure very bad cases of micro penis