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The History of Salt
It seems like the most ordinary thing in the world. A pinch of white crystals. A shaker on your table. You barely notice it.
But salt built empires. It funded revolutions. It got people killed. And quietly — invisibly — it still runs the modern world.
In this episode, Aiden Thomas traces the six-thousand-year story of salt: from a city built entirely from salt blocks deep in the Sahara, where enslaved workers mined the world's most valuable substance while Arab merchants traded it pound for pound for gold — to the French king who taxed it so brutally it helped spark a revolution — to the…
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