Talk:History of salt

Everything but history
That is what it is this article. and... ah!==Eurocentric== I was looking about if american cutures knew about salt. Theres nothing about it here.--Neurorebel (talk) 03:29, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Salting the earth
I'm removing the following sentence:
 * Aside from being a contributing factor in the development of civilization, salt was also used in the military practice of salting the earth by various peoples, beginning with the Assyrians.[5]

Ridley's article, [5], says exactly the opposite (famously) -- that the salting of the earth of the Earth at Carthage was a 20th century invention. This may well be an interesting anecdote for a reference in a popular culture section, but I'm not aware of any attestation of a military use of salt for destroying the fertility of a vanquished enemy's soil. Earlducaine (talk) 05:10, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

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The salary problem
''The word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt because the Roman Legions were sometimes paid in salt. They say the soldiers who did their job well were "worth their salt.''

Being paid in salt is disputed. The etymology of salary is disputed. Is this discussed elsewhere on Wikipedia? S C Cheese (talk) 09:24, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Where's the quote from? Furius (talk) 12:33, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The Roman section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_salt#Ancient_world S C Cheese (talk) 08:50, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * No it isn't. The text says "The word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt. The persistent modern claim that the Roman Legions were sometimes paid in salt is baseless;[5][6][7] a salārium may have been an allowance paid to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt, but even that is not well established.[8][9]" Furius (talk) 09:50, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know what happened here but the text of concern isn't there any more.
 * Thanks S C Cheese (talk) 17:39, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

History Citations
When discussing the Polish salt mines, it begins the section by saying "salt created and destroyed empires" which strikes me as overly dramatic and simplistic. Additionally, where is there a source for the claim that salt was a factor, let alone a major one? VoidpunkXenon (talk) 02:33, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

In the first paragraph a supporting citation is needed: Daniel Potts, On Salt and Salt Gathering in Ancient Mesopotamia, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 27, No. 3. (1984), pp. 225-271. 2003:C2:270F:FF40:EDAD:B6F9:E226:801B (talk) 11:41, 8 July 2023 (UTC)