<span>Lineage groups served as the building block as of the African society. This is where the group can declare their descendants, which has a common ancestry wither real or imaginary. They could verify their ancestry through the use of lineage groups and a sense of belongingness, hereafter. These were also the basis of formation of linear groups which the cohesion of the different extended family elements.</span>
To promote the glory of Ming dynasty China.
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The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. ... It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
