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nation-state
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a community organized under one government, according to an idea of nationhood or nationality derived from, but not limited to, common ancestry, language, customs, religion, or land ownership.
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matrilinear
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based on or tracing descent through the female line
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confederacy
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a union of political organizations; an alliance
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primeval
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aboriginal; having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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saga
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a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or family; original a story of the families that settled Iceland (12th-14th centuries), but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
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middlemen
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in trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original producers of goods and the retail merchants who sell to consumers
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caravel
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small regular vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails; ships that can sail more closely into the wind, allowing European sailors to explore the Western shores of Africa
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plantation
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large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor
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ecosystem
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a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
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demographic
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a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age, sex, income, etc.)
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conquistador
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sixteeth-century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas, from Colorado to Argentina, eventually conquering the Aztec and Incan empires
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encomienda
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Spanish government's policy to "commend" or give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them; part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes
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mestizo
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people of mixed Indian and European heritage (in Mexico)
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province
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a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state
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