Chapter 12: American Salt Wars

Question 1

__________ get the salt they need by finding brine ______, brackish water, rock salt, any natural salt available for _______.

Answer 1

Animals; springs; licking

Question 2

The _____ at the end of the road, because it had a ______ supply, was a suitable place for settlement. ________ were built at the _____.

Answer 2

lick; salt; Villages; licks (e.g. Buffalo, New York, named for the herd of buffalo that would congregate there for salt, subsequently creating a wide, earthen road)

Question 3

In the seventh month of the year, the Aztecs observed ceremonies for ________, who was banished to the saltwaters by her brothers the _____ _____, and thus she was the discoverer of salt, the inventor of salt making.

Answer 3

Vixtociatl; rain gods

Question 4

Many _________ ______ American cultures have a salt _____, almost always _______.

Answer 4

indigenous; North; deity; female

Question 5

The history of the _________ is one of constant _______ over salt. Whoever controlled _____ was in power.

Answer 5

Americas; warfare; salt

Question 6

The ________ used salt as a _______ mixed with marjoram and xul tree leaves for ______ _________, with oil for _________, with honey to lessen _________ pains.

Answer 6

Mayans; medicine; birth control; epilepsy; childbirth

Question 7

Northern Europeans…also looked for islands with inland salt _______ like the Cape _______ ________.

Answer 7

marshes; Verde Islands