North Africa Vocabulary

4. increased variety to achieve a balance
5. a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert
7. the name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
8. a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking
10. a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws
12. an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river
13. the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land
16. to change from one thing to another
17. small particles of rich soil good for farming
20. a chemical salt used to make fertilizer
21. the belief in one god
22. war a fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government

1. a person who lives by moving from place to place in search of food
2. a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times
3. the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
6. an underground layer of rock through which water flows
9. a document setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of
11. a government
14. a large area of sand
15. people in a country
18. the successor to Muhammad; a political and religious ruler of the Muslim empire
19. a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries