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| a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face (trade) (mail system kinda) |
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| an article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service (gold was this in the mali kingdom) |
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| exclusive control of a commodity (item used for trade) or money or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices |
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| a technique or science of working with metas or heating metals |
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| a group of travelers, pilgrims, merchants, etc. journeying together for safety in passing through desserts or hostile territory |
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| a member of people or tribe that as no permanent "city" or place to live(home), usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply |
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| a public clerk or writer, usually having the official status of being this |
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| a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness, or to bring good fortune; protecting charm |
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| reddish, ruddy, rosy, red color |
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| difficult to understand, poverty |
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| pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or the science if the aesthetics, having a sense of beauty characterized by love of beauty |
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| to the point, relevant, convincing, believable by virtue or forcible, clear, telling |
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| a hereditary tribal ruler among various people of the Benin region in western AF |
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| member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of West AF whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories poems songs and dances |
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| types of money, highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypera (money) |
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| royalty basically, governing body composed of those considered to be the best or most able people in the state |
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| a state in which the head of the government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state |
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| a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges |
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| a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few |
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| government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch |
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| a government or state in which the wealthy class rules |
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