Geography Ch. 17

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Across
  1. 2. local marketplace in North Africa and Southwest Asia
  2. 4. clearly different, unique
  3. 10. art of beautiful writing
  4. 12. According to Jewish belief Jews are descendants of this herder
  5. 15. belief system with one god
  6. 17. successor to Muhammad
  7. 18. tales or poems about heroes
  8. 21. process of collecting water and distributing it to crops
  9. 22. based on laws
  10. 23. form of government in which the leader claims to rule on behalf of a god
  11. 25. violence used against the people or government in the hopes of winning political goals
  12. 26. rules in certain religions that detail which foods people can and cannot eat and how food should be prepared and handled
  13. 27. the holy book of Christianity
  14. 30. system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
  15. 31. The monotheistic religion that developed in Southwest Asia
  16. 32. Islamic house of worship
  17. 33. the prophet of Islam
  18. 34. The oldest of the three monotheistic religions
Down
  1. 1. largest tombs in Ancient Egypt that belonged to the pharaohs
  2. 3. the holy book of Judaism
  3. 5. independent political unit that includes a city and the surrounding area
  4. 6. the river ancient Egyptian civilizations developed near
  5. 7. Christian holy person
  6. 8. the holy book of Islam
  7. 9. Another monotheistic religion that came about from Judaism
  8. 10. form of writing from ancient Mesopotamia that consisted of wedge-shaped markings pressed into clay tablets
  9. 11. pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Makkah, the completion of which at least once in a lifetime is one of the Five Pillars of Islam
  10. 13. incoming money
  11. 14. messenger of God
  12. 15. the people that are followers of the religion Islam
  13. 16. belief in more than one god
  14. 19. name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
  15. 20. the holy place of worship for Christians
  16. 24. to depend on
  17. 28. the followers of the religion Judaism
  18. 29. an agreement
  19. 30. Ancient king that conquered Mesopotamia