Southwest Asia and North Africa

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Across
  1. 4. largest ethnic group in Israel
  2. 6. largest ethnic group in Iran
  3. 10. a ban on trade
  4. 11. fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East that live in an area that straddles mountain and plateau regions of eastern Turkey, northeastern Iran, northern Iraq, and northwestern Syria
  5. 12. member of the nomadic desert peoples of North Africa and Southwest Asia
  6. 15. two rivers that flow through the Fertile Crescent (Turkey, Iraq and Syria)
  7. 17. Islamic law derived from the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad
  8. 18. _____ Peninsula; this landform is separated from the African continent by the Red Sea and separated from the rest of southwest Asia by the Persian Gulf
  9. 20. _______ Peninsula; this landform is occupied by the country of Turkey and it marks the beginning of the Asian continent
Down
  1. 1. in Islam, a place of worship\
  2. 2. Strait of ______ Hormuz; connects the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf
  3. 3. an ethnic group without a formal country
  4. 5. a series of internationally significant waterways in northwestern Turkey that connect the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to the Black Sea consisting of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus
  5. 6. groups of people that move from place to place with herds of animals
  6. 7. a system of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed in clay tablets
  7. 8. this is a landlocked salt lake located between Jordan and Israel
  8. 9. process in which arable land becomes desert
  9. 13. connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea by cutting through the Arabian Peninsula
  10. 14. body of water that is an extension of the Indian Ocean and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest
  11. 16. a mound or ridge of sand formed by the wind
  12. 19. largest ethnic group in the Middle East