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the practice by which secular rulers both chose nominees to church offices and gave them the symbols of their office
a decree by the pope that forbade priests from giving the sacraments of the Church to the people
a Christian rite
a group of related families
a circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles
a soldier who fights primarily for pay
a labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work
the religious doctrine that Martin Luther developed
the state of being saved through faith alone or through faith and good works
a person of mixed African and European descent
fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in World War I
the private domain of an Ottoman sultan, where he and his wives resided
the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
a truce or an agreement to end fighting
a release from all or part of punishment for sin by the Catholic Church, reducing time in purgatory after death
an extended family unit that has combined into a larger community
a relatively high, flat land area
broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs
Iroquois house about 150 to 200 feet (46 to 61m) long built of wooden poles covered with sheets of bark and housing about a dozen families
a member of the middle class who lived in a city or town
a person of mixed European and Native American descent
the military and political head of state under the Seljuk Turks
a form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote
an appointed official of the Ottoman Empire who collected taxes, maintained law and order, and was directly responsible to the sultan’s court

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