Across
- 4. an important trade agreement creating a huge zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues in North America
- 5. a movement that began in the 19th century to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine
- 6. a conservative religious movement that seeks the return of Islamic Sharia law
- 7. a region in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which was the location of some of the earliest civilizations
- 9. an ethnic group in Southwestern Asia that has occupied Kurdistan, located in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, for about a thousand years, and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century
Down
- 1. the cultural change that occurs when individuals in a society accept or adopt an innovation
- 2. a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together
- 3. the layer of gases released by the burning of coal and petroleum that trade solar energy, causing global tempurature to increase
- 6. seasonal winds, especially in South Asia
- 8. usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers