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| − | |<fill in> | + | |a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. |
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| | |[[Indo-European]] | | |[[Indo-European]] |
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| | |[[Mahayana]] | | |[[Mahayana]] |
| − | |d | + | |the later of the two great schools of Buddhism, chiefly in China, Tibet, and Japan, characterized by eclecticism and a general belief in a common search for salvation, sometimes thought to be attainable through faith alone. |
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| | |[[Manichaeism]] | | |[[Manichaeism]] |
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| | |[[Marius]] | | |[[Marius]] |
| − | |d | + | |Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. |
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| | |[[Masada]] | | |[[Masada]] |
| − | |d | + | |a mountaintop fortress in East Israel on the South West shore of the Dead Sea: site of Zealots' last stand against the Romans during revolt of a.d. 66–73. |
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| | |[[Menes]] | | |[[Menes]] |
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| | |[[Meroe]] | | |[[Meroe]] |
| − | |d | + | |a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350. |
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| | |[[Mesolithic Age]] | | |[[Mesolithic Age]] |