Warm-up # 14

1. Warm-up #14 • Write a paragraph explaining the importance of the salt-gold trade (use your notes or book for more detail).

2. Salt for Gold • Activity – Salt merchants will travel across the Sahara (exit the front door and enter the back door), pay a tax to enter the trading area (1 salt or gold), then trade salt for gold. • Rules for Silent Bartering – • You cannot talk to conduct your trades. • Sit facing each other, salt traders will lay down their pieces to make an offer then turn around and clap. • While the salt trader’s back is turned the gold trader will leave a offer, their turn their back and clap. • The salt trader will either take the trade or make a counter offer by adding or taking away pieces. • Each trader is limited to one counter offer per trade. • Getting more goods – the salt traders will have to return to the salt mines across the Sahara for more salt (which they must pay for), then return to Ghana to trade again. The gold traders will have to go to the mines to get more gold.

3. Salt for Gold • Winning – There will be two winners 1) the salt trader with the most goldat the end wins. 2) the gold merchant with the most salt at the end win. • Roles • Tables #1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 – Salt (5 or 7) • Tables #6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 – Gold (3 or 4) • Tax Collectors – chosen by Queen Schaller.

4. Salt for Gold 3-2-1 Reflection • Three ways the simulation was like the actual gold-salt trade. • Two ways the simulation was different from the gold-salt trade. • Onething you learned about trade.