This chapter was not very appealing to me at all and was boring, but at least it was about the Romans. I absolutely love finding out where words come from and had no idea that soldier, salary and salad became words focused around salt. Haha kind of funny to me. When I think of salary I think of making money and I cannot believe it came from salt since it is not worth anything really to us now, but it was back then.
I got more knowledge about the Patricians and Plebians throughout this chapter. I knew a little bit about them from the work we did in the textbook but not much. The Patrician meals were really strange and I would deffinately not be eating ever. Haha.
The Romans were smart cookies and got salt form mining salt rocks and drying up lakes. With their salt they produced their own trade factories, which I think of the plants down the road. I liked how they made salt affordable for the poor but during war they had no choice but to tax it to raise money. They must not raised enough to pay the soldiers so they got paid in salt, sweet.
The Romans used fish in some many different ways with some being more weird then others. They used every part possible from the fish and I think of native americans and buffalos. What was up with the rotten fish, gross?
The whole thing about Garum was weird and I did not understand it well. It was used in upper class meals and some thought it was good and others hated it. Why I do not know, I could of missed it.
One last thing, the purple color in the water was from bromine was neat.
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Yeah. The rotten fish thing definitely made me want to puke. I don't like fish when it is well cooked. I surely would not like it rotten. And what a shame it was that the purple dye industry lost power. Hooray for salt!
Again, I really don't care to hear that you were bored or didn't like the chapter. That's not the point of the blog. It is off topic. Being in honors means you are going to be asked to read things that are not "entertaining" to your tastes, so it is something you will need to get used to, especially if you are planning to head off to college.
Like you, I enjoy learning the origin of words. Soldier, Salary, Salami, etc. VERY cool. Yeah, being paid in salt would be very odd.
Glad you were able to draw info from class (Patricians & Plebs) I think I would steer clear of their food, and Garum is just gross sounding, yet it was very popular.
Mr. Farrell
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