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Barges transporting this good traveled north from Lüneberg (“LOON-burgh”) across the Stecknitz Canal on its namesake “old trade route.” Breton women often donned faux culs (“fo cue”) to smuggle this good across the Loire and into Anjou. Saint Kinga of Hungary legendarily traded her wedding ring for this good while visiting Wieliczka (10[1])(“v’yeh-LEECH-ka”). The Doomsday Book recorded houses (-5[1])that produced this good in Cheshire’s “-wich” towns. (-5[1])Guérande (10[1])(“gay-RAWND”) employed thousands of paludiers to harvest this good, which Jean-Baptiste Colbert taxed with his codification (10[1])of the gabelle. The (10[1])Hallein mine supplied this good to a namesake Austrian city. (10[1])The British Raj’s monopoly on native production of this good prompted (10[1])Gandhi to organize (10[1])a 1930 protest march to Dandi. For 10 points, name this good used to preserve and flavor food. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: salt [or table salt or rock salt or sea salt; accept halite; accept sodium chloride or NaCl; accept sodium carbonate or Na2CO3(“N-A-2-C-O-3”) or soda ash] (Salt was smuggled out of Brittany since it was a pays exempts gabelles province.)
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Audrey ChoHaverfordColumbia A4810
Sam MacchiVassarPenn B53-5
William HelmanBard ANYU A61-5
Cooper RohColumbia BRowan A6210
Lexi TermanRutgers AYale B7710
Ben SterlingYale AYale C8110
Jasin CekinmezPrinceton BRutgers B9110
Dylan Epstein-Gross (DII)Princeton AColumbia C10210
Anirudh BharadwajPenn ACornell C10510
Vincent ZhangPenn BVassar12410
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU ABard A12410