Across
- 3. a regional variety of a language with unique features, such as vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation
- 6. the rapid spread of a disease around the world that affects a large number of people over a wide area
- 8. the spread of new ideas from a source point
- 11. section of the Earth in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, economic systems, and types of government
- 12. likely to decay or spoil quickly
- 13. the earliest known inhabitants of a place
- 14. the process by which economic, political and cultural processes expand to reach across the world
Down
- 1. an action or behavior that is traditional among the people in a particular group or place
- 2. a common language among speakers whose native languages are different
- 4. a group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language
- 5. a group of people who share a common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin
- 7. a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward
- 8. the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people
- 9. an extensive group of countries or places under a single supreme authority
- 10. a characteristic of the culture that is shared by most members