North Africa

2. / a large area of sand
3. war / a fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government
6. / an underground layer of rock through which water flows
7. / to change from one thing to another
8. / a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws
12. / the belief in one god
14. / small particles of rich soil good for farming
15. people in a country
17. / the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land
18. / a person who lives by moving from place to place in search of food
20. / the successor to Muhammad; a political and religious ruler of the Muslim empire
21. / a government

1. / an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river
3. / a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking
4. / the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
5. / a doucment setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of
9. / increased variety to achieve a balance
10. / a chemical salt used to make fertilizer
11. / a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries
13. / a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times
16. / the name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
19. / a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert