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For the Aztecs, salt was a luxury
The Mexica gathered tequesquite, a natural crust of salt and soda from dried lake beds, and traded salt from places such as Iztapalapa. Poorer families could not easily afford it.
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Original sources
- Wikipedia. Tequesquite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequesquite