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| The form of political society that combines centralized with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity |
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| the form of society in which family line, power, and wealth are passed primarily through the female side |
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| an alliance or league of nations looser than a federation |
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| concerning the earliest origin of things |
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| a lengthy story or poem recounting the great deeds and adventures of a people and their heroes |
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| in trading systems, those dealers and who operate between the original buyers and the retail merchants who sell to consumers |
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| a small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails |
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| a large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor |
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| a naturally evolved network of relations among organisms in a stable environment |
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| concerning the general characteristics of a given population, including such factors as numbers, age, gender, birth and death rates, and so on |
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| a Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas |
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| an economic system characterized by private property, generally free trade, and open and accessible markets |
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| the spanish labor system in which persons were held to unpaid service under the permanent control of their masters, though not legally owned by them |
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| a person of mixed European and NA ancestry |
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| a medium-sized subunit of territory and governmental administration w/in a larger nation or empire |
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