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Paragraph 4When contemporary Native American tribes meet for a powwow, one of the most popularceremonies is the women’s jingle dress dance.______ Q. During this type of dance, the dancers blend complicated footwork with a series ofgentle hops, done in rhythm to a drumbeat.______ R. In the past, it is believed, the dress worn by the jingle-dress dancer was adornedby shells.______ S. These actions cause decorations sewn on the dancer’s dress to strike each other as sheperforms, creating a lovely jingling sound.______ T. Besides being more readily available than shells, the lids are thought to create asofter, more subtle sound.______ U. The modern jingle dress no longer has shells, but is decorated with rows of tincones, made from the lids of snuff cans, rolled up and sewn onto the dress.Paragraph 5To the earliest European traders, Africa seemed to be loosely organized into tribal societies,without any great centers of wealth or learning.______ Q. He described a thriving metropolis with great universities and dozens of privatelibraries.______ R. Unfortunately, by the nineteenth century raids by neighboring tribes had madeTimbuktu a shadow of its former self.______ S. This impression began to change in the fifteenth century, as Europeans traveledinland into western Africa.______ T. In 1470, an Italian merchant named Benedetto Dei traveled to Timbuktu andconfirmed these stories.______ U. The travelers told tales of an enormous city, known as Timbuktu, on the southernedge of the Sahara Desert, where the markets were crowded with goods and gold wasbought and sold.CONTINUE ON TO THE NEXT PAGE 1FORM B74