Our Place in the Pacific

1. An outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals
2. The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders and using them as forced labour
3. "Our ________ requires new bases in overseas territories for strategic reasons"
5. An outbreak of disease that quickly infects a large number of people across the world
8. "We have a responsibility as an enlightened and advanced nation to help other backward and barbaric peoples become civilised" (type of reason)
9. The first group of people to sail across the Pacific, according to Western theory
10. The currency of Samoa

1. A disease regularly occurring within an area or community
4. Rural Māori had a lower level of ________ due to a lack of exposure to illnesses
6. Pacific subregion that includes Fiji and Papua New Guinea
7. The god who created the islands and the first humans, according to Samoan legend