Across
- 2. / a large area of sand
- 3. war / a fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government
- 6. / an underground layer of rock through which water flows
- 7. / to change from one thing to another
- 8. / a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws
- 12. / the belief in one god
- 14. / small particles of rich soil good for farming
- 15. people in a country
- 17. / the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land
- 18. / a person who lives by moving from place to place in search of food
- 20. / the successor to Muhammad; a political and religious ruler of the Muslim empire
- 21. / a government
Down
- 1. / an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river
- 3. / a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking
- 4. / the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
- 5. / a doucment setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of
- 9. / increased variety to achieve a balance
- 10. / a chemical salt used to make fertilizer
- 11. / a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries
- 13. / a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times
- 16. / the name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
- 19. / a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert