North Africa

4. / a person who lives by moving from place to place in search of food
6. / an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river
8. / to change from one thing to another
9. / a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert
10. / a chemical salt used to make fertilizer
12. / increased variety to achieve a balance
14. / a doucment setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of
15. / the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
19. / the belief in one god
20. / the successor to Muhammad; a political and religious ruler of the Muslim empire
21. / an underground layer of rock through which water flows

1. / the name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
2. / small particles of rich soil good for farming
3. / the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land
5. / a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws
7. / a large area of sand
11. war / a fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government
13. / a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries
16. / a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking
17. / a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times
18. / a government
21. people in a country