World Cultures

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Across
  1. 2. Local belief system often tight-knit with nature
  2. 3. Worldwide spread of people, wealth, goods, ideas
  3. 4. Intermixing of cultural ideas, beliefs, practices
  4. 5. Brother vs. brother; or, national breakdown
  5. 7. Centuries-long flow of Africans to the Americas
  6. 9. Handful of essential Muslim practices
  7. 11. Forcing a people to work based on their skin color
  8. 14. Spread of an idea, belief, practice, etc.
  9. 15. East or west of the Prime Meridian
  10. 18. People shaping nature (and vice versa)
  11. 19. Large area with shared characteristics
  12. 21. Seal of the Prophets
  13. 23. An organized, cultured, settled, and urban people
  14. 27. Local characteristics
  15. 30. 1884-85 meeting in Germany to decide Africa's fate
  16. 31. Loss of the best and brightest
  17. 32. Experiences of people in empires
  18. 33. Mapping the culture of people
  19. 35. "Timber!" on a large scale
  20. 37. One who preaches the word of God
  21. 39. Herding animals
  22. 40. Unbending belief in the literal word
  23. 41. Effort to push back against colonizers
  24. 42. Plant grown not for food but for sale
  25. 43. North or south of the Equator
  26. 44. Nomads gotta eat!
  27. 45. Semiarid tropical grassland
Down
  1. 1. Relatively mild Mideast and North African weather
  2. 6. Mapping the natural world
  3. 8. Land turning from semiarid to arid
  4. 10. Where on Earth?
  5. 12. Humans controlling other species
  6. 13. Digital tools that find spots on the earth
  7. 16. Relatively well-watered Mideast region
  8. 17. Islam's holy book
  9. 20. Ideas used to justify empire-building
  10. 22. Going from A to B
  11. 24. Idea that Jews deserve a national homeland
  12. 25. For every place a name
  13. 26. Physical systems needed for a fully functional society
  14. 28. Farming plants
  15. 29. Govern by religion
  16. 34. Ability to control one's country and destiny
  17. 36. What happens when cartographers turn 3-D into 2-D
  18. 38. How a cartographer portrays the earth