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anthropological or sociological research intended to gather and relate data on various aspects of a geographical region and its inhabitants, as natural resources, history, language, institutions, or cultural and economic characteristics; a field investigation into human ecology.
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| Big History is a field of historical study that examines history on a large scale across long time frames through a multi-disciplinary approach and gives a focus on the alteration and adaptations in the human experience. |
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the concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy. |
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The State of Decolonizing |
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A huge break out of diseases. |
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| a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition |
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| were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by a state planning committee based on the Theory of Productive Forces that was part of the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development. |
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the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. |
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| The tendency of investment funds and businesses to move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe, thereby increasing the interconnectedness of different markets. |
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is a trade and economic policy based on the premise that a country should attempt to reduce its foreign dependency through the local production of industrialized products. |
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| The result was the mandate system of the League of Nations, established by the treaties ending World War I. Under this system, the victors of World War I were given responsibility for governing former German and Ottoman territories as mandates from the League. |
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the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, esp. the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society. |
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a class of people intermediate between the classes of higher and lower social rank or standing; the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like. |
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: the act of modernizing : the state of being modernized |
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| : a form of political organization under which a relatively homogeneous people inhabits a sovereign state; especially : a state containing one as opposed to several nationalities |
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| Countries with a strategic and political position of neutrality (‘non-alignment’) towards major powers, specifically the USA and former USSR. The movement emerged in the 1960s during the Cold War between East and West 1949–89. Although originally used by poorer states, the non-aligned position was later adopted by oil-producing nations. Its 113 members hold more than half the world's population and 85% of oil resources, but only 7% of global GDP |
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a separation, as of two or more things. |
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A proxy war or proxy warfare is a war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly. |
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an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. |
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| Sanitation is the hygienic means of promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of wastes. Hazards can be either physical, microbiological, biological or chemical agents of disease. |
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| Socialism is a political philosophy that encompasses various theories of economic organization based on either public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources. |
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to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area. |
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to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S. |
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