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