Cowrie Shells Level 6

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Across
  1. 1. French sailor shipwrecked in the Maldives from 1602 to 1607
  2. 3. Small sea shell that served as money across much of Asia and Africa
  3. 5. East African ring cowrie whose arrival devalued West African shell money
  4. 6. Coined metal money, which replaced cowries in the Sylhet revenue by 1813
  5. 9. Region where the cowrie most likely first became a currency
  6. 12. Species name of the money cowrie gathered in the Maldives
  7. 13. Weight carried in a ship's hold, which is how Yemeni vessels used cowries
  8. 14. Gold weight used to price salt, horses, and copper rods in West Africa
Down
  1. 2. Profiting from the same good selling at different prices in two markets
  2. 4. Maldivian counting unit of twelve thousand cowries
  3. 7. General rise in prices, which destroyed West African shell money
  4. 8. Landlocked Chinese province that used cowrie money for some eight hundred years
  5. 9. Maldivian counting unit of one hundred thousand cowries
  6. 10. Silver trade coin worth twelve thousand cowries in the Maldives
  7. 11. Coral atolls that were the main source of the money cowrie