How did the salt trade helped in the expansion of trade in the New Stone Age ?
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Explanation:
People learned to grow their own crops, rather than search for wild berries and grains. The raising of crops and animals is called agriculture. The people of the New Stone Age also learned how to train animals to be useful to humans. The training of crops and animals is called domestication.
Answer:
Salt is a mineral that was in great demand particularly with the beginning of an agricultural mode of life. Hunters and food-gatherers probably obtained a large amount of their salt intake from the animals they hunted and from fresh plant food. Salt only becomes an essential additive where fresh foods are unobtainable in vey dry areas, where body perspiration is also normally excessive. It becomes extremely desirable, however, amongst societies with relatively restricted diets, as was the case with arable agriculturalists.. Whoever controlled the salt trade also controlled the gold trade and both were the principal economic pillars of various west African empires...