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