Middle Eastern Culture

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Country with pyramids and the Nile (5)
  2. 4. Country in the Middle East with Jerusalem (6)
  3. 5. The calculated use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political (9)
  4. 7. A seaport on the Persian Gulf and capital of ___ (6)
  5. 8. The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca (5)
  6. 11. Deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy (7)
  7. 12. Religion that follows the Quran (5)
  8. 13. Muslim name for the one and only God (5)

Down

  1. 2. A fundamental principle or practice (plural) (7)
  2. 3. An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea (9)
  3. 6. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (8)
  4. 9. A believer in or follower of Islam (6)
  5. 10. A theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia (4)
  6. 12. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia (4)