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the legal authority of a court or public body to make decisions about particular matters or within a particular area

a law or authoritative rule made by a local government, especially a city or town

the person or organization that brings a civil legal case before a court

a body established to hear and decide particular kinds of legal or administrative disputes

the distant ancient past, often referring especially to the civilizations of Greece and Rome

to surround and cut off a defended place with military forces in order to make it surrender

a group of people traveling together, especially merchants using animals to carry goods across difficult country

soldiers trained or organized to fight on horseback, especially in historical armies

relating to a family of rulers, especially its power and continuity across generations

a historical arrangement of social relationships in which rights to land were linked to obligations of service and loyalty

a group of soldiers stationed in a town, fortress, or other place to guard or control it

objects deliberately placed in a burial with the dead person

soldiers whose main role is fighting on foot

a writing material made from strips of the papyrus plant, widely used in ancient Egypt

an agricultural worker who was legally bound to a lord's land and owed labor or payments

warfare that involves surrounding and attacking defended places to force their surrender

money or goods that one ruler or community pays to another to acknowledge authority or secure protection

a person who owed loyalty and service to a lord in return for protection or rights, often involving land

experimental in ways that challenge established artistic ideas or practices

an early twentieth-century art movement that reorganized subjects into geometric planes, often combining more than one viewpoint

a wall-painting technique in which pigment is applied to fresh, wet plaster, or a painting made by this technique

a painting movement that developed in nineteenth-century France and emphasized changing light, visible brushwork, and immediate visual impressions

art that arranges objects or media within a space so that the setting and the viewer's experience become part of the work

a broad set of artistic tendencies, especially from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that experimented with form and questioned inherited conventions

measures around cultural objects, such as suitable storage and handling, that reduce future damage without directly altering the objects

an artistic and literary movement that explored dreams and unconscious associations through unexpected images and experimental methods

The process through which emphasis on particular issues can influence which issues an audience considers important.

To form speech sounds by positioning and moving the tongue, lips, and other parts of the vocal tract.

To give or change the forms of a verb to show grammatical features such as tense or person.