Chapter 1 Glossary
Terms
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- nation-state
- political soceity where there is a centralized government with ethnic and culutural unity.
- plantation
- a large agriculutral enterprise growing crops and usually using slave or coerceed labor.
- ecosystem
- a naturally evolved network of reltions among organisms in a stable environment
- matrilinear
- Family line, power, and wealth are passed down through the female side.
- demographic
- concerning the general characteristics of a given population
- saga
- a lengthy story or poem recounting great deeds and adventure of its people and heros
- confederacy
- An alliance or league of nations loposer than a federation.
- primeval
- relating to the earliest ages
- middlemen
- dealers who operate between the original buyers and the retail merchants
- caravel
- a small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails