Berber Salt Camel

Berber Salt Camel
Unit information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals
Type	Wagon
Age	Exploration Age
Abilities	Turns into a Salt Mine
Training
Trained at	Trading Post on a Berber settlement
Wood	200
Training limit	1 (shared with Salt Mine)
Statistics
Hit points	250
Resists	20% vs. Siege
Speed	4
Line of Sight	18
XP bounty	60

“	Salty camel enraged from carrying heavy bags of salt through the desert. Constructs a Salt Mine.	”
—In-game description

The Berber Salt Camel is a wagon in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - The African Royals that can be trained at a Trading Post built on a Berber settlement. It turns itself into a Salt Mine, but as long as this Salt Mine is present, additional Salt Camels cannot be trained.

History

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Berber caravans played a crucial role in the thriving salt trade that traversed much of Africa, whether in the Sahara or the Afar Triangle. In the premodern world, salt was of crucial value not only as a seasoning but also as a preservative. Although slow to mine and refine, salt paid dividends and was at one point in time more valuable than gold.

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