Across
- 2. Facts you can point to that show something is true
- 5. A substance that comes out of the earth, which no workshop can make
- 6. A person whose work is buying and selling
- 7. The place where a government keeps its money
- 10. A shaped container that makes every salt piece the same size
- 11. Money or goods a government takes from people
- 13. Our word for pay, which comes from the Latin word for salt money
- 14. A long line of animals carrying goods across the desert
- 15. The edge of a country, where soldiers were posted
Down
- 1. A place where people dig something valuable out of the ground
- 3. Money that people count out to buy and sell things
- 4. Swapping one thing for another thing
- 5. One seller and no competition, which China had for salt
- 8. A thick flat piece of salt, dug out of the ground
- 9. A person who puts a book into another language
- 12. the salt caravan crossing the desert, with the camels loaded and the town of Taghaza in the distance.