Essential to all animal life on this planet, salt can be harmful in excess.
Many thousands of years ago, salt was discovered to be a great way to preserve food.
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Gold is very expensive...if you are worth your weight in gold than you are worth a lot...It means the person who said it thinks that you are WONDERFUL...a great person/valuable employee/good friend, etc.
They were both plentiful in the area. Salt was needed to prevent dehydration in such hot climates. Salt was worth its weight in gold. another thing is that salt was scarce in the savanna regions ... it was also sold in N. africa and europe:)
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Yes it was the main currency hence the phrase worth its weight in salt or worth its salt.
In the middle ages salt was very rare and valuable, so a person "worth their weight" was a person who was needed and valuable.
In ancient times, salt was highly valuable and sometimes worth its weight in gold. Factors that influenced its value included scarcity, transportation costs, and demand for preserving food.
Because back then in Africa salt was very scarce and one pound of gold would be worth one pound of salt and they traded salt for gold.
Villagers traded any surplus. Gold was plentiful in present-day Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal. In return West Africans had salt. People need salt to prevent dehydration and there was a heavy abundance of salt in some places. However in places like the savanna, salt was scarce. A block of salt was easily worth its weight in gold.
One ounce of gold is worth $1,063. The price of the block of gold depends on the weight. Most weight 40lbs and are worth $42,520.
Depend on the weight of gold is used for gilding