Across
- 3. A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea.
- 4. The larger of the two main branches of Islam.
- 5. An area that contains few people.
- 6. A human-made waterway that cuts north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt.
- 8. A member of a group of people who move from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time.
- 11. One of the two main branches of Islam.
- 12. river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris.
- 13. The Christian scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments.
- 14. A shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia.
Down
- 1. An area that contains many people.
- 2. the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia.
- 7. A sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- 9. The NW arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia.
- 10. An arm of the Indian Ocean, extending northwest between Africa and Arabia.
- 11. A strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
