Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires
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- Gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
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- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience
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- A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles
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- A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution
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- A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
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- The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century
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- The condition of being ___
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- Having the sun as the center
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- A political system governed by a few people
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- Government in which people vote for their leaders
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- Capital and largest city of Italy
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- Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy
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- Mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive
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- A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end (plural)
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- Founder of modern communism
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