M.E Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea.
  2. 4. The larger of the two main branches of Islam.
  3. 5. An area that contains few people.
  4. 6. A human-made waterway that cuts north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt.
  5. 8. A member of a group of people who move from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time.
  6. 11. One of the two main branches of Islam.
  7. 12. river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris.
  8. 13. The Christian scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments.
  9. 14. A shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia.
Down
  1. 1. An area that contains many people.
  2. 2. the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia.
  3. 7. A sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. 9. The NW arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia.
  5. 10. An arm of the Indian Ocean, extending northwest between Africa and Arabia.
  6. 11. A strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.