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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which town eventually conquered Veleia?

2. What is the name of the national dish of Poland?

3. In which country is Salzburg a town?

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?

5. What food is it thought that Marco Polo introduced to Italy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did ketchup develop into tomato ketchup?

2. How did salt become the foundation of the commercial empire in Venice?

3. How did the Chinese develop soy sauce?

4. In what way was meat an essential part of central Europe rather than salt?

5. How did salt become one of the first mediums of exchange?

6. How did the Ventian government maximize their profits from the salt trade?

7. How did the people of Parma make their ham?

8. Why did pilgrims in New England rely so heavily on salt?

9. What was the policy known as common salt?

10. How did Christopher Columbus cause the decline of Venice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the salt trade help to develop transport systems in Europe and America? How did countries use these trading systems during times of conflict?

Essay Topic 2

Why is the Dead Sea so important to Israeli industry? Why could the Dead Sea soon disappear?

Essay Topic 3

How were the following countries important in the development of salt?

1. China.

2. Britain.

3. USA.

4. Italy.

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