Ancient History/Glossary
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Carbon Dating noun -- a chemical process which can determine the approximate age of any organic material with an age between 500 years and 150,000 years.
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Dictator noun -- title of the emergency leader of Rome during the Republic.
Dictator perpetuus noun -- title of the dictators when the office was awarded for life.
Domesticated noun/adj -- a species tamed and bred to benefit human life and culture.
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Grave Goods noun -- objects of at least nominal value buried with a dead person.
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Inundation noun: The annual recurrence of the flooding of the Nile, beginning in July and ending in November.
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Latifundia noun: a large estate farm in Italy run by slave labor, common in the late Roman Republic and Imperial eras.
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Mestizo -- noun, adj -- A person of mixed Native-European blood in many Latin American cultures.
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Prehistory noun -- the period of human activity on Earth before the invention of writing.
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Shaman noun-- A spiritual and medical leader in some tribal cultures, part-magician, part-doctor, part-lorekeeper.
