Across
- 2. Saharan settlement whose houses and mosque were built of salt blocks
- 7. Landlocked Chinese province that used cowrie money for some eight hundred years
- 10. French sailor shipwrecked in the Maldives from 1602 to 1607
- 11. Record of where an object came from and how it was acquired
- 12. Silver trade coin worth twelve thousand cowries in the Maldives
- 13. Gold weight used to price salt, horses, and copper rods in West Africa
- 14. Species name of the money cowrie gathered in the Maldives
- 15. Study of how historians have interpreted and argued about the evidence
- 18. Heavier East African ring cowrie whose arrival devalued West African shell money
- 19. Maldivian counting unit of twelve thousand cowries
Down
- 1. Dutch factor who called the shells boesies and recorded their use at Fida
- 3. Profiting from the same good selling at different prices in two markets
- 4. Small sea shell that served as money across much of Asia and Africa
- 5. Region where the cowrie most likely first became a currency
- 6. Buried mass of coins or shells that archaeologists hope to find intact
- 8. Coined metal money, which replaced cowries in the Sylhet revenue by 1813
- 9. Weight carried in a ship's hold, which is how Yemeni vessels used cowries
- 13. Coral atolls that were the main source of the money cowrie
- 16. Maldivian counting unit of one hundred thousand cowries
- 17. Maldivian treasury that claimed a fixed share of every arriving cargo