Warm-up #14
• Write a paragraph explaining the importance
of the salt-gold trade (use your notes or book
for more detail).
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.
Salt for Gold
• Winning – There will be two winners 1) the salt
trader with the most gold at 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.
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.
• One thing you learned about trade.