> Do you mean salt was worth as much as gold, literally? EDIT: Deleted my previous comment. EDIT: I seem to have gotten the story backwards. It was West-Afri

> Do you mean salt was worth as much as gold, literally? EDIT: Deleted my previous comment. EDIT: I seem to have gotten the story backwards. It was West-Africa who needed the salt, but they had so many gold-mines that Gold was near worthless. Woops!! So any European who brought salt past the Sahara Desert could trade 1-lb of salt for 1-lb of gold.