{"id":1899,"date":"2022-09-12T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:30:49","slug":"borders-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/12\/borders-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Borders: Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Possible Points:<\/h4>\n<p>(Read through the &#8220;Salt&#8221; article from Wikipedia to get basic ideas around &#8220;borders&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>essential for life<\/li>\n<li>food seasoning<\/li>\n<li>salting &#8211; food preservation<\/li>\n<li>civilization\n<ul>\n<li>the first city in Europe was a salt mine<\/li>\n<li>around 6000BC, saltworks in Rome &amp; China<\/li>\n<li>different food resources of nomads and agriculturalists lead to different needs for salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>an important article of trade\n<ul>\n<li>salt roads<\/li>\n<li>barter\n<ul>\n<li>the obsidian trade in Anatolia in the Neolithic Era<\/li>\n<li>about 2800 BC, the Egyptians began exporting salt fish to the Phoenicians in return for Lebanon cedar, glass, and the dye Tyrian purple<\/li>\n<li>the Phoenicians traded Egyptian salted fish and salt from North Africa throughout their Mediterranean trade empire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>in Africa, as currency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>cities along the river Salzach related to salt<\/li>\n<li>wars &amp; tax\n<ul>\n<li>Venice won a war with Genoa (? &amp; relations with the American Revolution<\/li>\n<li>Cities on overland trade routes levied duties<\/li>\n<li>governments imposed salt taxes on people\n<ul>\n<li>The voyages of Christopher Columbus &#8211; were financed by salt production in southern Spain<\/li>\n<li>the oppressive salt tax &#8211; the causes of the French Revolution<\/li>\n<li>tax, pay for Napoleon&#8217;s foreign wars<\/li>\n<li>Salt March in India<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Religion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Upsides:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>food seasoning &amp; food preservation<\/li>\n<li>promote civilization<\/li>\n<li>promote business<\/li>\n<li>cities related to salt flourished<\/li>\n<li>government got tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Downsides:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>cause wars<\/li>\n<li>salt tax increases the burden on the people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Cultural differences:<\/h4>\n<p>(Mainly related to religion&#8230; Or I can focus on the differences between salt in Chinese and other cultural histories<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1927 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220913_001417-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220913_001417-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220913_001417-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220913_001417-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220913_001417-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220913_001417.jpg 1738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible Points: (Read through the &#8220;Salt&#8221; article from Wikipedia to get basic ideas around &#8220;borders&#8221;.) essential for life food seasoning salting &#8211; food preservation civilization the first city in Europe was a salt mine around 6000BC, saltworks in Rome &amp; China different food resources of nomads and agriculturalists lead to different needs for salt an&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/12\/borders-salt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Borders: Salt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}