Southwest Asia & North Africa Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. A person who moves from place to place in search of food
  2. 5. the longest river in the world; flows through Egypt and Africa for 4,000 miles
  3. 6. Belief in many gods
  4. 10. a king in ancient Egypt
  5. 12. a leader or ruler of the Ottoman Empire
  6. 13. the process of redirecting water to crops through channels and ditches
  7. 14. farming
  8. 15. fine particles of fertile soil
  9. 16. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies.
  10. 18. a god or goddess
Down
  1. 2. Belief in one God
  2. 3. two rivers that form the outside border of Mesopotamia
  3. 4. an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
  4. 7. a stone monument built as a tomb in ancient Egypt
  5. 8. a leader or savior
  6. 9. an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
  7. 11. a series of rulers from the same family
  8. 17. a paper-like material invented in ancient Egypt