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Smithsonian Learning Lab: What Is Currency? Lessons From Historic Africa Lesson PlanSmithsonian Learning Lab: What Is Currency? Lessons From Historic Africa Lesson Plan
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Smithsonian Learning Lab: What Is Currency? Lessons From Historic Africa

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From the Smithsonian, this site offers lessons and resources on currency, its use (in the form of gold dust, salt, or metal objects) as an instrument of trade in historic Africa, and its requirements as an instrument of trade in the classroom.

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bartering, currency, money, ghana

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barter, gold dust, handa, monetary systems, nontraditional currency, payment for goods, weights and measures, african akan, smithsonian institution: what is currency? lessons from historic africa, kingdom of ghana (ad 400 to 1200), managing money
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3rd - 8th
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Math
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