Across
- 2. small particles of rich soil
- 3. a crack in Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet
- 6. successor to Muhammad
- 8. poor Egyptian farmer who rents small plots of land
- 11. crop grown for export
- 14. monarch heads the government but it's run by elected officials
- 16. process of collecting water and distributing to crops
- 19. trade ban against a country
- 20. fertile area in a desert wherever water is available
- 21. Christian holy person
Down
- 1. fighting between groups to control a country's government
- 4. area with rich soil left by river floods
- 5. pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah)
- 7. chemical salts used to make fertilizers
- 9. messenger of God
- 10. government where leader rules by force with few freedoms
- 12. nonreligious
- 13. Muslim house of worship
- 15. acts of violence against people or governments for political reasons
- 17. mass murder of people of a certain ethnic group
- 18. a person who travels from place to place following food sources