Across
- 4. seawater is made fresh and usable for drinking and irrigation
- 6. farming settlements
- 7. only city that occupies land on two continents
- 10. a body of water in the middle of the desert
- 13. people who move from place to place
- 15. nomads who know exactly where they are going and when
- 16. mountain in northeastern Turkey
- 17. Egyptian farmers
- 19. dense grassy areas with ferns
- 22. determines where people settle ad how long they stay there
Down
- 1. this densely populated area has 2500 people per square mile
- 2. the arc-shaped area of fertile land
- 3. these created vast deserts in many parts of the Middle East
- 5. this valley is made up of fertile silt left over by annual floods
- 8. market place
- 9. location of the worst famine
- 11. mountain range in Saudi Arabia
- 12. city located on the Tigris River
- 14. small individual farms
- 18. clan of Bedouins in the Empty Quarter
- 20. mountain range in Egypt
- 21. the lifeblood of many early Middle Eastern cities