1. Salt and Gold Trading Activity
Trans-Saharan Trade
Salt and Gold
Trading Activity

2. Who’s trading? North Africans Wangarans (West Africans) Ghana
Trading Salt
Wangarans (West Africans)
Trading Gold
Ghana
Controlling Trade
Soninke Monarch (king or queen) and warriors

3. The Purpose Get as many pairs of gold and salt as possible.
The winning group will receive a couch potato pass for each person in that group.

4. The Steps North Africans send a salt caravan to Ghana.
North Africans place trade tokens on the banks of the Niger River and step back into the Sahara Desert.
Wangarans sail down the Niger River.
Wangarans examine the North African salt trade proposal.
Wangarans place the gold tokens they want to trade alongside North African Salt.

5. The Steps North Africans react to the trade proposal of the Wangarans.
Soninke collect taxes from the North Africans and Wangarans.