How Salt Defined World History

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When we talk about things being traded across empires and bringing merchants to faraway lands, we usually think of resources like gold or silver or diamonds, but what about salt?
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[@pastrychefiii822]

U: Salt gives u seasonal independence Me a vegetarian:.......Ermmm

[@ahmadgames4u918]

Second reply

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@pastrychefiii822 Salt lets you have seasonal independence too... You get to eat more than potatoes over winter bcuz salt lets you preserve more fickle foods that wud spoil over that time. Pickling!

[@larrywave]

How north is too north to harvest Salt from seawater ? As i have understood that they did/used to harvest salt from white sea

[@UnRealistic.]

Salt lake city*

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Salt went from an essential mineral to a figure of expression when someone is triggered

[@pastrychefiii822]

Yes XD, I disnt realise

[@ChairmanMeow1]

How did the word salty even become meaning triggered anyway

[@Erde_midget770]

@@ChairmanMeow1 I mean, yas

[@JoaoGabriel-hk8ub]

Yeah but take that with a grain of salt

[@psmsedwinfran501]

Bro i see you everywhere but im not critizing you lol

[@KhAnubis]

Can’t pin two comments at once, but for those who noticed the mistake, yes, Lüneburg is in fact actually in Niedersachsen, not Schleswig-Holstein

[@SylviaRustyFae]

+

[@UnRealistic.]

Noice*

[@Hendricus56]

Yea, immediately noticed that. I wonder why... (I live in the region)

[@yeetus_feetus8564]

Here before comments get closed

[@hchskxnbcj]

*angry Niedersachsen noises*

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Once a valuable asset that can make or break empires now something we throw on the road.

[@sohopedeco]

The first time I went to Canada, I was confused about the small pieces of broken glass scattered through the roads and sidewalks. Later someone explained it to me.

[@coreystockdale6287]

Ha ha snowplow go brtttttt

[@ypsilondaone]

That's not the same Salt.

[@scythal]

Ancient emperor (if they were around today): "Nooo you can't throw that on the road, that's expensive!"

[@hrhtreeoflife4815]

@@scythal it's just salt 🧂 😕 🙄

[@jansalomin]

Imagine a person trying to make a weapon using chlorine and sodium but they end making salt.

[@daddyleon]

That's quite anachronistic, we couldn't really make those things. Yes, make. Because those two are quite reactive, it's hard to find them irl just laying aorund.

[@jansalomin]

@@daddyleon ya

[@emilekroth100]

If I made that mistake, I would be pretty salty......

[@Dan-kt1zs]

You don't say!

[@jesscorbin5981]

Weapon for...?

[@LisaBowers]

Loved the Chubbyemu and Bill Wurtz references. 👍🏻

[@Dragoon77]

Came searching for this comment when he mentioned Hyponatremia 😄

[@harkalyjonas]

"It also caused wars " Me: IS THIS AN AS-SA(U)LT?

[@bsuaveee]

ERRRR

[@HighPeakMapping]

How interesting, salt has such a rich and beautiful history. Might need to drink some water after this though...

[@flowrepins6663]

I drink my water salty

[@enesamederel]

A slang word in turkish for saying something expensive "tuzlu" which means "salty" now I see...

[@pedrosabino8751]

In portuguese too, when some product is very expensive we say the price is "salty"

[@mariashane8152]

Me: eating boiled egg with salt - finishes egg - eats a few pinches of salt left from eating egg. A few moments later: searches how salt changes the world 🙂

[@MateoQuixote]

This is crazy I actually just ate something that had salt on it just now!

[@fullmetalalchemist9126]

Not very crazy

[@MateoQuixote]

@@fullmetalalchemist9126 ??? What do you mean?

[@ganjafi59]

@@MateoQuixote bro salt is in almost all foods

[@jairofranco6847]

@@MateoQuixote 🤣

[@mfaizsyahmi]

7:38 "India-pendence" I physically reeled in disgust at this terrible pun

[@Cjnw]

Lol, the "bharat" of a joke!

[@April-yq5oz]

Me distracted at only 15 seconds in trying to think of another rock that humans eat 🤔

[@BananaBrainsZEF]

Humans can eat any rocks, provided they're hungry enough.

[@edwardblair4096]

Technically ice is a mineral form of water. Would that count?

[@Eugenecrews-kk4fl]

Ice isn't a rock can't @ anyone or whatever

[@LEL-is8xq]

I was simply watching another great KhAnubis video, and ''Mellieha'' made it even greater! Love from Valletta, Malta!

[@KhAnubis]

I pronounced it right, I presume?

[@josannecamilleri6008]

I was watching this video which came up randomly as I am doing a guiding course and a tour about salt in Malta..and Mellieha came up.. it is my home town :)

[@OfficeSupplyRobot]

When I think of salt, I think of it primarily as a means of melting ice. However, that’s just from living in a cold climate half the year.

[@realhawaii5o]

My region of Aveiro in Portugal is historicaly known for having salt pads next to the ocean, which have brought wealth to the area for centuries.

[@sergel02]

This is really helpful in understanding Triangle Strategy.

[@-AirKat-]

Salt Tax: yet another way gamers are oppressed

[@vassilisgiannakopoulos2651]

I am dissapointed that you did not mention Carthage xD

[@jimmyjames24]

Great video! I never realized the importance of salt. It makes so much sense now why the people of El Dorado, Colombia traded their salt for the northerners gold. I recently read about the annilation of the Muisca population. 😔😔😔 they were rich with salt and traded for gold. But the Spaniards were convinced they were a city of gold.

[@arbiterelegantiarum]

I was today years old when I've learned that the word salad actually comes from salt. Praise you, KhAnubis!

[@oceanweatherandmapping9414]

Were learning about salt yay

[@PowerCrafter123]

4:54 Yo big props on the pronunciation of "Alte Salzstraße"

[@wykamix358]

6:57 what is that land mass north of cuba

[@jk-gb4et]

thicc bahamas

[@Kaneko69.]

thicc bahamas (1)

[@Merluch]

The bahamas but giant, i think its because is almonst at sea level

[@toastytoast9800]

atlantis

[@JustAToeBee]

KhAnubis, i am SALTY!!!! because you totally got geography wrong. Lüneburg is in Niedersachsen

[@KhAnubis]

Damn it you’re right, gonna fix this in the pinned comment

[@WDCallahan]

Saying "low salt presence in blood means hyponatremia" sounds backwards. Like it would sound to say that your head hurting gives you a headache. It would have been better to say that hyponatremia is the condition of you having low salt presence in your blood.

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I actually really enjoy your commercials for sponsors. Seems weird to say so, but they are just silly enough. Also, salt!

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Love this channel, it's such an inspiration to my own channel! I love the way that you take an obscure topic and then go in on it! I hope that my channel one day holds a candle to your own @KhAnubis

[@harlangleeson9496]

Thanks! Very informative!

[@smpark12]

That NordVPN ad was so good I didn’t skip

[@thechosenone5644]

Gotta be the one to mention that roadside salt is typically magnesium chloride. More ions -> lower freezing point and more bang for your buck.

[@Piter_Play]

you forgot about Wieliczka salt mine in poland which is on UNESCO list

[@Artur_M.]

I don't think it's entirely fair to say he "forgot" it, as it is impossible to put everything in such short video, but I also hoped that Wieliczka would be mentioned.

[@jesseb5328]

Super surprised to see Lüneburg mentioned in a KZbin video like this! Great video!

[@Ussurin]

If any of you want to see how a late medieval/early renaissance salt mine looked like, I highly recommend Wieliczka mine near Cracow in Poland. It's also a museum of renaissance art as miners sculpted a lot of stuff into the mine, like a whole chapel made of salt or famous Polish Kings.

[@Numba003]

Gotta totally second this guy. That salt mine in Poland is incredible. Maybe I’ll manage to see it in person one day.

[@arbiterelegantiarum]

the longest running salt mine in history, mind you

[@cat_1878]

*salt is love, salt is life*

[@FantFrei]

expected a documentation about the history of league of legends

[@shogunsam]

Or star wars fans

[@nabilalhami1681]

0:49 Isn't anyone going to notice about KhAnubis logo not having a blue mask?

[@KhAnubis]

Because that‘s the normal logo, the profile picture is just a variant wearing a mask to remind people to wear one themselves

[@Willsellyourkidneys]

I'm so happy you're actually taking the time to pronounce the words correctly (from what I can tell), because so many people just don't bother.

[@BalkansMike]

Thousands years ago whoever had a lot of salt used to be a billionaire during that Era. But now salt is just food table.... Everything changes man

[@eggheadusa]

Also being fat meant you were a king now it means you’re fat

[@edgelord8337]

Oh so it's not something you experience when you lose a game of monopoly thanks to rng?

[@chrissytheconqueror7049]

An American immigrant living in Germany made a Chubbyemu reference. This is what happened to his comment section.

[@KhAnubis]

☝️Presenting to the emergency room

[@adiabd1]

@@KhAnubis at present examination, it's found that KH has hypersaltemia

[@aliciamarques1164]

Can you make a video about the portuguese empire I feel like the history of portugal is super underrated

[@TheAdnanmajor]

Nowadays, the most Salt you'll see are cultivated in the KZbin Comment Sections.

[@debu6157]

Remember Bois , Emia means presence in blood.

[@awfulzed]

The world uses salt everyday, it is important, it is our god.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Salt history is one of my weirdest of special interests xD Its just such a cool history of an absolute necessity

[@serl3zykn1ght71]

*Down here salt is a way of life. Obviously, the environment here is all salt. The ceiling is salt, the floor is salt, the walls are salt and to an extent the air is salt. And you breathe that in and you constantly taste the salt.*

[@markmh835]

Where is "down here"?

[@serl3zykn1ght71]

@@markmh835 Down here in the comments section.

[@bdnbn6192]

I was about to throw a fit when you started talking about Spain lmao

[@Unraveled]

Omg, this channel is awesome! Why didn't I discover it earlier?

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Godlike ad read

[@laugechristophersen9913]

Even though I'm like 10th, I'm here to pretend I was the first since noone else has claimed this obligatory title

[@bircruz555]

The connection made between "wich" as in Northwich, Middlewich etc.. and salt is intriguing, But there is a more direct and better connection. .

[@pedroguscos73]

Hearing a german talk in english about almost every place in the world was not in my list today But I'll allow it

[@arnefehm4926]

You're like the only English-speaking youtuber who doesn't completely suck at pronouncing non-english words. Nice

[@manmanman4825]

No mention of Hallstatt? :(

[@ianeons9278]

Who else is eating popcorn with salt on it well watching this?

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

5:19 love me some bill wurtz

[@amyoung101]

So I came for the salt history lesson. But have to say well done on the ad. Actually watched the whole thing and laughed. 😂

[@mysterious7215]

I was doing homework but this is more important

[@alexchiheh3541]

Took a break from sammarinese patriotism to watch this, 100% worth it

[@ecurewitz]

ah, the Most Serene Republic!!!

[@alexchiheh3541]

@@ecurewitz most serene it is, my friend

[@ecurewitz]

@@alexchiheh3541 I must visit someday

[@thli8472]

salt-sufficient

[@_OZZIE_RASCAL]

No one was in "salted" in the making of this video ⚖️

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

The ONLY rock we humans eat? What about all the other minerals, iron, copper, zinc, selenium, potassium, and a whole bunch of other minerals that are essential to life?

[@goateddddd6958]

100k nice!

[@JustADude1210]

Very nice video. Little mistake : Lüneburg is not in modern Schleswig Holstein, but in Lower Saxony

[@SylviaRustyFae]

I strongly disagree that salt was nvr more valuable than gold. Gold hasnt had an inherent value to humans for nearly as long as salt has. Salt was more valuable than gold for the vast majority of human history. Its just unrecorded history so we tend to gloss over it, but even before we came down from trees we still valued salt; all animals without metalsmithing tech value salt to a far grter degree than they wud value useless hunks of yellowish rock. And there was very much a point where humans started to build societies before valuing gold; and in those societies they wud have needed salt all the same for preservation and such even tho they hadnt yet come to value gold.

[@pasofino2199]

We put salt on margaritas in Mexico

[@ARTiculations]

Alright fine when I renew my Nord - I’ll use your code. That was good.

[@thedeadpeatr]

5:00 Lüneburg is not in Schleswig Holstein but in Lower Saxony ;)

[@enebbene123]

I am buffeld, he nailed the the German names O.o usually they get butcherd in english vids XD

[@WorldisOurThing]

Great stuff! I especially liked India-pendance :-)

[@wikiwikiwee1]

Hypo- meaning low Na referring to sodium And emia meaning presence in blood

[@farhan4]

ah yes, my favourite things on the table, a deadly gas and explosive powder

[@elchris8788]

After today there's a city in the US that will have alot of salt

[@rodneykuhn249]

I dont need salt.. salt needs me lol

[@Magnus_Ducatus_Chineva]

Why some guy in a game calls you a hacker when you are not hacking? Salt.

[@stefanoraz27]

I'm all out of salt -Ava Max

[@hrhtreeoflife4815]

Salty 🧂

[@Napsteraspx]

Cool skit bro

[@TheWizardGamez]

5:16 I swear i've heard that "Ill do it said (insert noun)"... just where?

[@popdartan7986]

Came here after Foodwishes video about salt

[@jesscorbin5981]

Metals and their salts!

[@Numba003]

That plug for NordVPN at the end was excellent haha. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊

[@adcros6116]

The most saltiest video

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Mmmmm... Its close and its a grt vid, but I feel like Its Okay to be Smart might just have a saltier video, but it is a much longer video and also includes a brief interlude about how weird pepper is as the thing to pair with our salt shakers.

[@emiroercan]

A student decided to move to Germany. This is what happened to his accent

[@Tardvark]

What font are you using in this video?

[@hilaryhongkong]

When I hear "salt", I think the movie starring Dame Angelina Jolie

[@novadream1184]

Is that age of empire 2 music

[@connor4435]

I know a lot about salt already cause I am from Droitwich Spa

[@cheezchris]

Salted bacon. Yum

[@csverse]

Nobody is insalted when making the video.

[@etethan1503]

I have never been this early.

[@professorengineermuhammads5556]

Who introduced the use of "salt" to the world, first of all. People of Indus Valley took "salt and salted fish" in the ships to their cousins Sumers as a gift, some 6000 years ago! The sumers in return started calling people of Indus Valley as Malaah مَلاح (saltmen) and their country Indus Valley as "Meluha"! __ Saleh Sheikh Larkana Pakistan.

[@UnRealistic.]

Is Salt lake city salty!?*

[@markmh835]

Actually, yes. It is on the shores of the Great Salt Lake -- one of the saltiest bodies of water on earth (after the Dead Sea). It is 5-7 times saltier than the ocean, and impossible to sink in.

[@sriyasodharmma4021]

I see you everywhere bro!

[@UnRealistic.]

I knew that I don't was just jokin :) Yeah salt lake is very salty wink* wink*

[@harriehausenman8623]

Brilliant NordVPN Ad :-) That one was real fun.

[@UnRealistic.]

Not to be extra salty but I think I don't like salts...

[@UnRealistic.]

Lol

[@Halo_Legend]

BUT TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT BWAHAHAHHSHHAHRHHAHAAA I died

[@david_oliveira71]

On nutrition, if anyone's interested, I'd definitely recommend (Dr) James DiNicolantonio. He both wrote a book about it and uploaded videos here on YT

[@frankchan4272]

A SALT of a different kind, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

[@KEUNGWHITETIGER]

HOW CAN WE HAVE THE MONEY TO BUILD FORBIDDEN CITY? MAKING SALT