Chapter 10: The Hapsburg Pickle

Question 1

_________ were often located on the sites of ancient ______ so that the salt could provide _______.

Answer 1

Monasteries; mines; revenue

Question 2

Under the direction of the _______, salt mining boomed during the Middle Ages in the Alpine area from _______ to _______.

Answer 2

Church; Bavaria; Austria

Question 3

Underground springs provided _____ that could be ______ into salt _______. Plentiful _______ offered cheap _____.

Answer 3

brine; boiled; crystals; forests; energy

Question 4

Much of the salt of central _______ eventually came under the control of the _________.

Answer 4

Europe; Hapsburgs

Question 5

The _________ established a salt ________, controlling production, transport, and wholesale trade.

Answer 5

Hapsburgs; monopoly

Question 6

Southern _________ was the site of ancient springs where as early as 3500 B.C.E., brine was gathered and _______ in clay pots .

Answer 6

Poland; boiled

Question 7

At first, salt _______, often ________ ___ _____, were worked to death in slave _________.

Answer 7

miners; prisoners of war; conditions

Question 8

In 1772, ________ was ________ between Austria, Prussia, and Russia—vanished as a nation after _______ _____ ___.

Answer 8

Poland; partitioned; World War II

Question 9

The most common salt-cured vegetables from Alsace to the Urals were _________ and _________—________ and ________.

Answer 9

cucumbers; cabbage; pickles; sauerkraut

Question 10

In any pickling it is crucial to prevent exposure to the ___, which leads to ___ rather than fermentation.

Answer 10

air; rot

Question 11

The amount of salt used in sauerkraut in Russia and Poland depended on the _________ _______ of the family.

Answer 11

economic status