North Africa

1. / a person who lives by moving from place to place in search of food
6. / the successor to Muhammad; a political and religious ruler of the Muslim empire
8. / an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river
9. / a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert
10. / the belief in one god
11. / a large area of sand
12. / a doucment setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of
16. / the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
18. / an underground layer of rock through which water flows
20. / a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking
21. / a government

2. / a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times
3. people in a country
4. / a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws
5. / the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land
7. / a chemical salt used to make fertilizer
12. war / a fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government
13. / the name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
14. / a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries
15. / increased variety to achieve a balance
17. / small particles of rich soil good for farming
19. / to change from one thing to another