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Show i Roads and Cities Were Built by Salt and Incense Salt and incense were the chief economic and religious necessities of the ancient world, and most of its great commercial routes were established because of them. One of the oldest roads in Italy is the "Via Salaria." The salt route from Greece to the mouth of the Dnieper Dnie-per led to the same salt pans that supply the Far East today in normal nor-mal times. It can be said that London was built by salt, for the first settlement settle-ment on the banks of the Thames owed its origin to the fact that there rested the pack-trains carrying carry-ing salt from Cheshire en route to the shores of the channel for export ex-port to Gaul. |