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Worth your salt? From my understanding salt was worth more then gold at one point in time. If that's the case then how come people used to "salt the Feild's" of there enemy's wouldn't that be a cost prohibitive measure? Also couldn't they just boil down sea water to produce salt?

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Why did it take to the medieval ages for stirrups, saddles and spurs to become invented or more some become common place.

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Worth your salt? From my understanding salt was worth more then gold at one point in time. If that's the case then how come people used to "salt the Feild's" of there enemy's wouldn't that be a cost prohibitive measure? Also couldn't they just boil down sea water to produce salt?	6
Why did it take to the medieval ages for stirrups, saddles and spurs to become invented or more some become common place.	2