M malnutrition- lack of adequate food for good health marauding- to raid an area in order to loot and steal mastodon- extinct elephant-like animal with long coat of red hair medieval- having to do with the Middle Ages, a period of European history from 500 A.D. to 1500 A. D. microbe- a very tiny germ that can cause disease middens- refuse or garbage heaps misery- great unhappiness or suffering monopoly- sole control of a product or service mortuaries- a place like a funeral home where dead bodies are kept until burial mythology- a group of myths, usually stories about gods and heroes