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tribute 1. a. a payment by one ruler or state to another, usually as an acknowledgment of submission b. any tax levied for such a payment 2. (in feudal society) homage or a payment rendered by a vassal to his lord 3. the obligation to pay tribute How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Plans show the ditch filled and rerouted in meandering curves across the park so it can continue to act as a wetlands, emptying into the Greenhill tributary system. For long periods of time they refused to participate in the tributary system which valorized China's vision of itself as the center of the world and the embodiment of all that was civilized. It thus joins a series of recent work on China that has completely overturned what previously was taken for granted - for example, we no longer believe in the universal application of the tributary system, in the absence of a system of civil law, or in the total victimization of Chinese women. |
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