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Salt was once as valuable as gold and used as currency. Here's how the two commodities diverged.leveraged their access to gold by trading an ounce of this precious metal for an ounce of salt. These trade routes spanned ...
In 5th Century Ghana routes unfurled across the Sahara Desert, to trade salt – abundant in north-west Africa, including present-day Morocco – with gold from nations to the south such as Ghana.
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