Tolong bantuin jwb dong, buruan yaAs a precious and portabel commodity, salt has long been a cornerstone of economies throughout history. In fact, researcher M.R. Bloch conjectured that civilization began along the edges of the desert because of the natural surface deposits of salt found there. Bloch also believed that the first war .... likely fought near the ancient city of Essalt on the Jordan River .... could have been fought over the city's precious supplies of the mineral. In 2200 BC, the Chinese Emperor Hsia Yu levied one of the first known taxes. He taxed salt. In Tibet, Marco Polo noted that tiny cakes of salt were pressed with images of the Grand Khan to be used as coins and to this day among the nomads of Ethiopia's Danakil Plains it is still used as money. Greek slave traders often bartered it for slaves, giving rise to the expression that someone was "not worth his salt." Roman legionnaires were paid in salt .... a salarium, the Latin origin of the word "salary." Merchants in 12th-century Timbuktu .... the gateway to the Sahara Desert and the seat of scholars .... inivalued this mineral as highly as books and gold. In France, Charles of Anjou levied the "gabelle", a salt tax, in 1259 to finance his conquest of the Kingdom of Naples.

According to Bloch, why did the first war occur?


a. They wanted to live in the ancient city of Essalt.

b. They used salt as taxes.

c. They fought over salt.

d. They bartered salt for cakes.

e. Slaves didn't want to pay taxes.​