Cowrie Shells Level 5

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Across
  1. 4. Maldivian counting unit of twelve thousand cowries
  2. 5. Company of travelers and camels that carried shells across the Sahara
  3. 6. French sailor shipwrecked in the Maldives who described the shell harvest
  4. 7. Mountain province of China that used cowrie money for eight hundred years
  5. 8. General rise in prices that destroyed West African shell money
  6. 10. Maldivian counting unit of one hundred thousand cowries
  7. 12. East African ring cowrie that flooded West Africa in the age of steamships
  8. 14. Small sea shell that served as money across much of Asia and Africa
  9. 15. Gold weight used to price salt, horses, and copper rods in West Africa
Down
  1. 1. Region where the cowrie most likely first became a currency
  2. 2. Dead weight in a ship's hold, which is how Yemeni vessels carried cowries
  3. 3. Coral islands that were the main source of the money cowrie
  4. 9. Species name of the money cowrie gathered in the Maldives
  5. 11. Coined metal money, which replaced cowries in Bengal's tax collections
  6. 13. Silver trade coin worth twelve thousand cowries in the Maldives