Across
- 5. Facility that turns petroleum into gasoline and other products
- 6. Local marketplace in North Africa and Southwest Asia
- 9. Area built up by rich fertile soil left by river floods
- 10. Ban on trade with a particular country
- 12. Small territory entirely surrounded by larger territory
- 13. Pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Makkah, the completion of which at least once in a lifetime, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam
- 14. Art of beautiful writing
- 15. Person who lives by moving from place to place to follow herds of migrating animals that they hunt or to lead herds of grazing animals to fresh pasture.
- 16. Older Section of Algerian Cities
- 19. Crop Farm product grown for export
- 21. Process of collecting water and distributing it to crops
- 22. Chemical salt used to make fertilizer
- 24. Crack in the Earth’s crust where two tectonic plates meet; prone to earthquakes
- 26. Settlement in Israel where settlers share all their property and make goods as wells as carry out farming
- 28. Tales or Poems about heroes or heroines
- 29. Belief in one god
- 31. Law Rules in certain religions that detail which foods people can and cannot eat and how food should be prepared and handled
- 33. Form of writing from ancient Mesopotamia that consisted of wedge-shaped markings pressed into clay tablets
- 34. Christian Holy Person
- 35. Illegal Fishing or hunting
- 36. Fertile area that rises in a desert whenever water is regularly available
- 38. Large areas of soft sand and dunes in the Sahara
- 41. Successor of Muhammad
- 42. Messenger of God
- 43. Farming Agriculture that conserves water and uses crops and growing methods suited to semi-arid environments
- 45. Form of government in which the leader claims to rule on behalf of a god
- 47. Fight between opposing groups for control of a country’s government
- 48. Large group of people who have a common ancestor in the far past
- 49. Independent political unit that includes a city and the surrounding area
- 50. Making a resource available in limited amounts
- 51. Form of government in which a leader rules by force and typically limits citizens freedoms
Down
- 1. Step taken to cut off trade with a country to show opposition to its government's action
- 2. Underground layer of rock through which water flows
- 3. Peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land
- 4. Process of treating seawater to remove salts and minerals and make it drinkable
- 7. plain Area built up by rich fertile soil left by river floods
- 8. Name for a powerful ruler in ancient Egypt
- 11. Settlement in Israel in which people share in farming, production and selling, but each person is allowed to own some private property as well
- 14. Form of government in which a monarch is the head of State but elected officials run the government
- 17. Dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert
- 18. Type of rock formed when layers of sediment or dirt from the ocean floor, are compressed together and harden
- 20. Small particles of rich soil
- 23. Chemical salt used to make fertilizer
- 25. Non Religious
- 27. Violence used against the people or government in hopes of winning political goals
- 30. Partly dry grassland often found on the edges of a desert
- 32. Islamic House of Worship
- 37. Belief in more than one God
- 39. Mass murder of people from a particular ethnic group
- 40. Nomadic desert people of Southwest Asia who follow a traditional way of life
- 44. System of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words
- 46. Agreement