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