Cowrie Shells Level 4

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Across
  1. 5. Group of travelers and camels crossing the desert together
  2. 6. Coral islands where the money shells were gathered
  3. 11. Gold weight used to price horses and salt in West Africa
  4. 13. Silver trade coin used to measure shell prices in 1554
  5. 14. Counting unit of twelve thousand shells
  6. 15. Dead weight carried in the bottom of a ship
Down
  1. 1. Species name of the money cowrie
  2. 2. French sailor who watched women gather the shells
  3. 3. Region of India where the shell became a real currency
  4. 4. Small seashell that served as money across Asia and Africa
  5. 7. Ring-shaped coral island with a lagoon in the middle
  6. 8. Gold coin that bought 400,000 shells in the Maldives
  7. 9. Desert the shells crossed by camel to reach Mali
  8. 10. Mountain province of China that used shell money for eight hundred years
  9. 12. Rising prices caused by too much money arriving