North Africa Vocabulary
Across
- 4. increased variety to achieve a balance
- 5. a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert
- 7. the name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
- 8. a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking
- 10. a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws
- 12. an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river
- 13. the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land
- 16. to change from one thing to another
- 17. small particles of rich soil good for farming
- 20. a chemical salt used to make fertilizer
- 21. the belief in one god
- 22. war a fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government
Down
- 1. a person who lives by moving from place to place in search of food
- 2. a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times
- 3. the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
- 6. an underground layer of rock through which water flows
- 9. a document setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of
- 11. a government
- 14. a large area of sand
- 15. people in a country
- 18. the successor to Muhammad; a political and religious ruler of the Muslim empire
- 19. a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries