BOOK SUMMARY OF SALT- A WORLD HISTORY BY MARK KURLANSKY IT TELLS HOW SALT HAS AFFECTED THE HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY.

1. A WORLD SALT HISTORY
-BY MARK KURLANSKY

2. • 3000 B.C (Sichuan) -salt making began in China
• Li Bang: founded the first natural brine wells (252
B.C)
• Solar evaporation of sea water
• System of ponds and sluices: Salt Cay
(Bermuda)
• Human powered wheel that pumped brine Salt’s
impact on drilling: used to find rock salt.
• 1859 Pennsylvania- Edwin Drake was drilling for
salt when he discovered oil instead!
1 654 98732 10SALT MINING

3. • Soy sauce
• Garum sauce
• Tabasco sauce
• Ketchup-18th century
• Preservation
1 654 98732 10FOOD

4. •MUMMIES
• BREAD
• WINE
1 654 98732 10EGYPT

5. • The salt mines of Poland led to a vast
kingdom in the 16th century, only to be
destroyed when Germans brought in sea
salt
• In American history, salt has been a
major factor in outcome of wars.
• During the War of 1812, salt brine was used
to pay soldiers in the field.
1 654 98732 10WARS

6. SALT AND THE GREAT SOUL
THAT MADE INDIA INDEPENDENT
1 654 98732 10INDEPENDENCE

7. •Salt road
•Money
•Salt tax system
•Successful salt ports:
•Sichuan(China)
•Genoa(Mediterranean region)
•Vetican
•Timbuktu( Egypt)
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8. SALT
1 654 98732 10WORDS DERIVED

9. • Small salt producers were
bought out by big
companies such as Morton
• Morton Salt Company-
invented vacuum
evaporator- uniform salt
crystals
first free flowing salt
first iodized salt
1 654 98732 10MORTON

10. • USA largest salt producer + salt consumer
• Followed by china, Germany, Canada
and India
• 8% food purpose
• 51% clearing roads
• U.S government has also stored an
emergency reserve of petroleum in salt
domes throughout the gulf of Mexico
1 654 98732 10CONTEMPORARY

11. SALT
WARS
WORDS
FOODTRADE
INDEPE
NDENCE
CONCLUSION

13. THANK YOU
ANJALI MEHTA
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