Across
- 2. local marketplace in North Africa and Southwest Asia
- 4. clearly different, unique
- 10. art of beautiful writing
- 12. According to Jewish belief Jews are descendants of this herder
- 15. belief system with one god
- 17. successor to Muhammad
- 18. tales or poems about heroes
- 21. process of collecting water and distributing it to crops
- 22. based on laws
- 23. form of government in which the leader claims to rule on behalf of a god
- 25. violence used against the people or government in the hopes of winning political goals
- 26. rules in certain religions that detail which foods people can and cannot eat and how food should be prepared and handled
- 27. the holy book of Christianity
- 30. system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
- 31. The monotheistic religion that developed in Southwest Asia
- 32. Islamic house of worship
- 33. the prophet of Islam
- 34. The oldest of the three monotheistic religions
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- 1. largest tombs in Ancient Egypt that belonged to the pharaohs
- 3. the holy book of Judaism
- 5. independent political unit that includes a city and the surrounding area
- 6. the river ancient Egyptian civilizations developed near
- 7. Christian holy person
- 8. the holy book of Islam
- 9. Another monotheistic religion that came about from Judaism
- 10. form of writing from ancient Mesopotamia that consisted of wedge-shaped markings pressed into clay tablets
- 11. pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Makkah, the completion of which at least once in a lifetime is one of the Five Pillars of Islam
- 13. incoming money
- 14. messenger of God
- 15. the people that are followers of the religion Islam
- 16. belief in more than one god
- 19. name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
- 20. the holy place of worship for Christians
- 24. to depend on
- 28. the followers of the religion Judaism
- 29. an agreement
- 30. Ancient king that conquered Mesopotamia