North Africa and the Middles East

1. The Middle East has over half of the world's proven oil reserves and remains the center of gravity in the global oil market.
5. An ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people.
6. Belief in one God.
7. A culture hearth is a "heartland", a source area, innovation center, a place of origin of a major culture.
9. A person who lives by moving from place to place to follow and hunt herds of migrating animals or to lead herds of grazing animals to fresh pasture.
11. A historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
12. A crescent-shaped region in the Middle East.

2. The artificial supply of water to agricultural land.
3. Supply is the amount of goods available, and demand is how badly people want a good or service.
4. is a continuous period of dry weather when an area gets less than its normal amount of rain.
8. The religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
10. An international organization whose members work to influence the price of oil on world markets by controlling the supply.