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| matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother |
| lineage | the people-living, dead, adn unborn-who are descended from a common ancestor |
| codex | a book with pages that can be turned |
| stateless society | cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government |
| patrilineal | relating to a social in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the father |
| glyph | a symbolic picture-especially onw used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone |
| pueblos | villages of large apartment-like buildings made of clay and stone, built by the Anasazi and later peoples of the American Southwest |
| age-set system | Africa-children born in the same year do all of their activities together (anything having to do with the tribe) |
| tribute | a payment made by a weaker power to obtain an assurance of peace and security |
| totems | animals or other natural objects that serve as symbols of the unity of clans or other groups of people |
| quipu | an arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information |
| city-state | a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit |
