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Bantu
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Family of closely related African languages
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African
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Oral tradition
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poems, songs, and stories passed by word of mouth from one generation to another
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generation
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matrilineal
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Describes a society in which people trace their ancestors and inherited property through their mothers rather than through their fathers
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mothers
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The Sahara
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enormous desert covers about 1/4 of the African continent
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1/4
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Mayan
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one of the most adavanced early people in the Americas, occupying most of the Yucatan peninsula
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Yucatan peninsula
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Aztec
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Wandering warriors who gradually came to rule Central Mexico
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warriors
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Incas
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Civilization in the Andes mountains in South America that by the end of the 1400s included much of what is now Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile
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Andes
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heresy
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Opinion that conflicts with official church beliefs
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opinion
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excommunication
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Official edict that bars a person from church membership
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edict
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czar
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Title taken by Ivan the terrible; Russian for "caesar"
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terrible
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mosaic
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Picture or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass or stone
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design
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dowry
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Money or goods a wife brings to a marriage
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goods
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icon
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Holy picture of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or a saint
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Holy
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imams
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Spiritual leaders who according to some Shi'ah Muslims should be direct descendants of Muhammad
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leaders
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mosques
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Muslim places of worship
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worship
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