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What is Currency?

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Students study the history of currency and the monetary system of historic Akan people, who lived on the Atlantic coast of Africa. This outstanding series of lessons is multi-disciplinary and contains many activities for different learning styles.

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3rd - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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