Across
- 2. belief in one god
- 3. resources only available in limited supply
- 4. a tall, slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a prayer leader calls muslims to prayer.
- 6. widespread, sustained shortage of food
- 7. small pieces of glass, tile, or stone of different colors into another material to make pictures or patterns
- 12. process of removing dissolved salts from water; producing drinking water from seawater
- 15. group, people who share a common culture, language, and history
- 16. a gradual transition from fertile to less productive land, or the spread of deserts
- 17. tropical grassland
- 18. people from the countries on the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding territories in SW Asia & north Africa who speak Arabic
Down
- 1. unrefined oil developed from tiny animals and plants that died millions of years ago nomad, people who have no fixed residence; move from place to place seasonally within a well-defined territory
- 3. farming, farming to grow only the food for families to eat, not to sell
- 5. a group of merchants traveling together for safety
- 8. process of redirecting water to crops using channels and ditches
- 9. the legal separation of the races that denied black South African citizens rights imperialism, the practice of extending a powerful nation’s influence by controlling the resources of other territories
- 10. a semiarid grassland that separates the Sahara in the north from tropical grasslands in the south
- 11. traditional storyteller responsible for keeping oral traditions of the culture and passing it down to the next generation
- 13. organization of petroleum exporting countries
- 14. the right to vote