1. 1. The complete body of Jewish teaching, thought and literature.

2. Torah

3. 2. The removal of salt from seawater for drinking or watering crops.

4. desalination

5. 3. A pyramid shaped clay structure that served as a foundation for a temple in Mesopotamia.

6. ziggurat

7. 4. Monotheistic religion that believes Mohammed was a prophet.

8. Islam

9. 5. To supply land with water via ditches, pipes or canals.

10. irrigation

11. 6. An Islamic house of worship

12. Mosque

13. 7. A chemical product made from petroleum or natural gas.

14. petrochemical

15. 8. The holy book of Christianity

16. Bible

17. 9. Created to control flooding on the Nile River

18. Aswan High Dam

19. 10. Person who calls Muslims to pray 5 times a day.

20. Muezzin

21. 11. Muslims are obligated to make this trip to Mecca at least once in their lives.

22. hajj

23. 12. Person thought to be a messenger of God

24. prophet

25. 13. The belief in one God

26. Monotheism

27. 14. Babylonian king that created the first set of written laws.

28. Hammurabi

29. 15. A region in Southwest Asia; site of the world’s first civilizations.

30. The Fertile Crescent

31. 16. Religion based on the teachings of Jesus.

32. Christianity

33. 17. Egyptian writing system using pictures and symbols to represent words or sounds.

34. Hieroglyphics

35. 18. The 9th month in the Islamic calendar in which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.

36. Ramadan

37. 19. An early form of paper made from a reed-like plant found in the Nile River delta.

38. papyrus

39. 20. An early form of writing that uses wedges and lines pressed into clay tablets.

40. cuneiform

41. 21. Use of violence for political purposes.

42. terrorism

43. 22. In the Old Stone Age, those went in search of food.

44. hunter-gatherers

45. 23. A religion whose prophets are Abraham and Moses

46. Judaism

47. 24. Group of countries that control the price and production of the majority of the world’s oil

49. 25. The sacred text of Islam

50. Qur’an (Koran)