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1. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
investiture
harem
textiles
heretic
2. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
advent
imperial
scorn
nationalism
3. A remote and undeveloped area
primogeniture
adherents
positivism
hinterland
4. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
maritime
subordinate
monasticism
patronage
5. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
lineage
monasticism
eunuchs
autonomy
6. Someone Who is drafted into military service
primogeniture
prophesized
adherents
conscript
7. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
harem
conscript
innate
primogeniture
8. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
primogeniture
imperial
suppressed
hierarchy
9. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
monasticism
subsequent
patronage
ethics
10. To stop; delay - hinder
concubine
garrison
forestalling
investiture
11. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
decadent
classical
affiliation
classical
12. Independence; self-determination - political independence
adept
autonomy
papacy
ethics
13. A person who believes in the equality of all people
indigenous
status
egalitarian
subordinate
14. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
affiliation
venerate
hastened
prophesized
15. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
imperial
secular
decadent
indigenous
16. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
theocracy
sect
prophesized
advent
17. Natural - inborn
monasticism
fuse
stratify
innate
18. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
harem
fealty
fuse
inextricable
19. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
abdicate
status
secular
puritanical
20. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
heretic
pastoral
imperial
harem
21. Belief in government run by religious leaders
pagan
medieval
pastoral
theocracy
22. Independence; self-determination - political independence
mystic
fealty
primogeniture
autonomy
23. Someone Who is drafted into military service
conscript
advent
hinterland
papacy
24. A belief - principle - or teaching
ethics
monopoly
doctrine
advent
25. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
affiliation
mystic
pagan
scorn
26. Preach the gospel (to)
innate
evangelize
secular
status
27. Having superior power and influence
medieval
aristocracy
synthesis
paramount
28. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
garrison
patrilineal
advent
prophesized
29. A remote and undeveloped area
patrilineal
decadent
hinterland
sect
30. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
indigenous
primogeniture
paramount
congregate
31. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
faction
scorn
sovereignty
eradicate
32. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
inevitable
classical
fuse
precedent
33. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
aristocracy
adept
puritanical
mystic
34. To give up power
paramount
mystic
precedent
abdicate
35. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
papacy
patronage
innate
36. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
adept
eunuchs
patronage
puritanical
37. To wipe out; to destroy
investiture
eradicate
fuse
faction
38. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
autonomy
scorn
primogeniture
pagan
39. A way of life in Which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith; living life as a monk
primogeniture
patrilineal
monasticism
investiture
40. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
fuse
hastened
monasticism
41. Predicted; foretold
pagan
prophesized
abdicate
mystic
42. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
synthesis
matrilineal
hinterland
43. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
matrilineal
suppressed
eradicate
mystic
44. Mistress
affiliation
monasticism
concubine
hinterland
45. Believers - followers
uniformity
prophesized
eradicate
adherents
46. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
imperial
ecclesiastic
forestalling
morality
47. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
congregate
ethnocentric
venerate
scorn
48. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
suppressed
synthesis
fealty
secular
49. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
sedentary
faction
abdicate
matrilineal
50. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
ethics
forestalling
nationalism
ideology
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