Middle East and North Africa

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Across
  1. 1. ban on trade
  2. 4. territory that belongs to a particular political unit but is separated from it and surrounded by another political unit
  3. 6. conservative form of Islam distinct form Sunni and Shia sects
  4. 8. person believed to be a messenger from God
  5. 11. ancient writing system used in Egypt in which pictures and symbols represent words or sounds
  6. 12. system of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets
  7. 13. yearly pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims must make at least once in a lifetime
  8. 14. regards Muhammad's son-in-law Ali and the imams as his rightful successors
  9. 16. large temple built by the Sumerian
Down
  1. 2. belief in one God
  2. 3. belief in the right of a nation to be an independent state
  3. 4. distinct territorial or cultural area that is within a foreign territory
  4. 5. nation an ethnic group without a formal country
  5. 7. in Islam, a house of worship
  6. 9. fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group, active in Afghanistan, which controlled the Afghan government from 1996 - 2001
  7. 10. Islamic law derived from the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad
  8. 14. regards the first four successors of Muhammad as his rightful successors
  9. 15. boundary boundary created by a physical feature, such as a mountain, river, or strait