was it Tea, Sugar, Salt, or Honey ?
Please help :)
2007-02-01 16:26:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
salt. Hence the term salary.
2007-02-01 16:29:59 · answer #1 · answered by parrotsandgrog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While its true that the Latin "Sal" is the root of the English "Salary" its kinda reverse engineering to say that the "salary" of Roman soldiers (milites where we get the term "military" BTW) was salt.
They were paid in coin, very roughly 5 denarii a month for a legionary. Salt was a subsistence allowance, not unlike the housing/food allowances paid to military members today.
The Romans pioneered many of the practices used in modern armies today. For example, Roman regulations specified that the maximum a legionary could carry on the march was about 30Kg/60lbs. In the 1980s the US Army spent about $2M researching the maximum amount a soldier should carry in the field: it was about 35Kg/70lbs....
2007-02-02 00:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by jim 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Salt, hence the term "salary"and in meat, hence the term "bringing home the bacon"! And wheat, "Bread winner"sound familiar?
2007-02-02 01:20:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salt. Sal is Latin for salt. Salary is derived from the Latin word for salt. The word salt is deprived from the Latin word for salt.
2007-02-02 00:36:12 · answer #4 · answered by Xpi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
salt
2007-02-02 00:32:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In nature by the surrounding prostitutes. Eh I like a muscular guy in uniform !!
2007-02-02 00:35:06 · answer #6 · answered by gabnella 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Citizenship and a plot of land after their tenure.
2007-02-02 11:05:32 · answer #7 · answered by chiral 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋