Literally, a civilization is a complex society, as distinguished from a simpler society. Everyone lives in a society and a culture, but not everyone lives in a civilization. Historically, civilizations have shared some or all of the following traits: Intensive agricultural techniques, such as the use of human power, crop rotation, and irrigation. This has enabled farmers to produce a surplus of food that is not necessary for their own subsistence. A significant portion of the population that does not devote most of its ...

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Civilization, Civilization - Senses of the word, Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions, Civilization - 2: Broader sense, Civilization - 3: Human society as a whole, Civilization - 4: A standard of behavior, Civilization - 5: Superior vs. less complex societies, Civilization - What characterizes civilization, Civilization - Civilization as a cultural identity, Civilization - Civilizations as complex systems, Civilization - The future of civilizations, Civilization - The Fall of Civilizations, Civilization - Negative views of civilization, Civilization - Problems with the term civilization, Civilization - Early civilizations, Civilization - Mesopotamia, Civilization - Egypt, Civilization - India, Civilization - China

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Civilization, Civilization - Senses of the word, Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions, Civilization - 2: Broader sense, Civilization - 3: Human society as a whole, Civilization - 4: A standard of behavior, Civilization - 5: Superior vs. less complex societies, Civilization - What characterizes civilization, Civilization - Civilization as a cultural identity, Civilization - Civilizations as complex systems, Civilization - The future of civilizations, Civilization - The Fall of Civilisations, Civilization - Negative views of civilization, Civilization - Problems with the term civilization, Civilization - Early civilizations, Civilization - Mesopotamia, Civilization - Egypt, Civilization - India, Civilization - China

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Literally, a civilization is a complex society, as distinguished from a simpler society. Everyone lives in a society and a culture, but not everyone lives in a civilization. Historically, civilizations have shared some or all of the following traits: Intensive agricultural techniques, such as the use of human power, crop rotation, and irrigation. This has enabled farmers to produce a surplus of food that is not necessary for their own subsistence. A significant portion of the population that does not devote most of its ...

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Civilization, Civilization - Senses of the word, Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions, Civilization - 2: Broader sense, Civilization - 3: Human society as a whole, Civilization - 4: A standard of behavior, Civilization - 5: Superior vs. less complex societies, Civilization - What characterizes civilization, Civilization - Civilization as a cultural identity, Civilization - Civilizations as complex systems, Civilization - The future of civilizations, Civilization - Negative views of civilization, Civilization - Problems with the term civilization, Civilization - Early civilizations, Civilization - Mesopotamia, Civilization - Egypt, Civilization - India, Civilization - China

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The word civilization (or civilisation) has a variety of meanings related to human society. The term comes from the Latin civis, meaning "citizen" or "townsman". Civilization - Senses of the word. Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions. By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Technically, anthropologists distinguish civilizations in which many of the people live in cities and get their food from agriculture, ...

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• Civilization - Senses of the word
• Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions
• Civilization - 2: Broader sense
• Civilization - 3: Human society as a whole
• Civilization - 4: A standard of behavior
• Civilization - 5: Superior vs. less complex societies
• Civilization - What characterizes civilization
• Civilization - Civilization as a cultural identity
• Civilization - Civilizations as complex systems
• Civilization - The future of civilizations
• Civilization - Negative views of civilization
• Civilization - Problems with the term civilization
• Civilization - Early civilizations
• Civilization - Mesopotamia
• Civilization - Egypt
• Civilization - India
• Civilization - China

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Politics of Nepal Political parties in Nepal Elections in Nepal edit The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) or CPN(M) is a Maoist political party and military organization founded in 1994 and led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal (referred to as 'Chairman Prachanda'). It was formed following a split in the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre) and it used the name 'CPN (Unity Centre)' until 1996. It launched what it refers to as the "Nepalese People's War" on February 13, 1996, and is now acti ...

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The Vedic civilization is the Indo-Aryan culture associated with the Vedas, the earliest known records of Indian history. Mainstream scholarship places the Vedic civilization into the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, many Hindu scholars date its beginnings as early as the 7th millennium BC based on astronomical information in the Vedas, genetics, horse bones findings in Harappan places that suggest a Vedic way of living before 2000 BC,and the reference to a big Saraswati river in Rig Veda which proves Vedic people were there before it decrea ...

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• Vedic civilization - Overview
• Vedic civilization - Rigvedic period
• Vedic civilization - Political organization
• Vedic civilization - Society and economy
• Vedic civilization - Vedic Religion
• Vedic civilization - The later Vedic period
• Vedic civilization - Kingdoms
• Vedic civilization - Society

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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden (available at wikisource), on simple living amongst nature, and Civil Disobedience (available at wikisource), on resistance to civil government. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the radical John Brown. Am ...

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• Henry David Thoreau - Life and work
• Henry David Thoreau - Bibliography
• Henry David Thoreau - Online texts

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A disaster (from Latin meaning, "bad star") is the impact of a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment. (It may be noted that event itself is not a disaster, it is the impact which is called disaster.) Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive. Most events included herein are compiled from United States Federal Emergency Management Age ...

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• Disaster - Natural disasters
• Disaster - Avalanche
• Disaster - Cold
• Disaster - Disease
• Disaster - Drought
• Disaster - Earthquake
• Disaster - Famine
• Disaster - Fire
• Disaster - Flood
• Disaster - Hail
• Disaster - Heat
• Disaster - Hurricane
• Disaster - Impact event
• Disaster - Limnic eruption
• Disaster - Landslide
• Disaster - Mudslide
• Disaster - Sink hole
• Disaster - Solar flare
• Disaster - Storm surge
• Disaster - Thunderstorm
• Disaster - Tornado
• Disaster - Tsunami
• Disaster - Volcanic eruption
• Disaster - Waterspout
• Disaster - Winter storm
• Disaster - Man-made disasters
• Disaster - Aviation
• Disaster - Arson
• Disaster - CBRNs
• Disaster - Civil disorder
• Disaster - Crime
• Disaster - Data loss
• Disaster - Dam failure
• Disaster - Hazardous materials
• Disaster - Processing interruption
• Disaster - Liquidity shortage
• Disaster - Power outage
• Disaster - Public relations crisis
• Disaster - Radiation Contamination
• Disaster - Space Disasters
• Disaster - Telecommunication outage
• Disaster - Terrorism
• Disaster - War
• Disaster - Surviving a disaster
• Disaster - Personal and family disaster preparation
• Disaster - Local government and emergency services disaster preparation and management
• Disaster - Business disaster preparation and management
• Disaster - National disaster preparation
• Disaster - Humanitarian disaster preparation
• Disaster - Information security disaster preparation

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Behanzin is considered (if Adandozan is not counted) eleventh King of Dahomey (now Benin). Upon taking the throne, he changed his name from Kondo. He succeeded his father, Glele, and ruled from 1889 to 1894. Behanzin was Abomey's last independent ruler established through traditional power structures, and considered to be a great ruler. His symbols are the shark, the egg (a rebus of his name), and a captive hanging from a flagpole (a reference to a boastful and rebellious Nago practitioner of harmful magic from Ketou whom the k ...

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives P ...

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• Anarcho-primitivism - Concepts
• Anarcho-primitivism - Civilization
• Anarcho-primitivism - A Critique of Symbolic Culture
• Anarcho-primitivism - The Domestication of Life
• Anarcho-primitivism - The Origins and Dynamics of Patriarchy
• Anarcho-primitivism - Division of Labor and Specialization
• Anarcho-primitivism - Rejection of Science
• Anarcho-primitivism - The Problem of Technology
• Anarcho-primitivism - Production and Industrialism
• Anarcho-primitivism - Beyond Leftism
• Anarcho-primitivism - Against Mass Society
• Anarcho-primitivism - Liberation and Organization
• Anarcho-primitivism - Revolution vs. Reform
• Anarcho-primitivism - Influences
• Anarcho-primitivism - Rewilding and Reconnection
• Anarcho-primitivism - Associations
• Anarcho-primitivism - Criticism

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The term Western world or "the West" can have multiple meanings depending on its context. Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from European culture. Western world - Western countries. To define what is typical of Western society and We ...

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• Western world - Historical
• Western world - Cold War
• Western world - Post-Cold War
• Western world - Further definitions
• Western world - Western life
• Western world - Western thought

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Early Muslim philosophy is considered influential in the rise of modern philosophy. Aquinas knew of at least some of the Mutazilite work and the Renaissance and the use of empirical methods were inspired at least in part by Muslim works taken in Spain in 1492. The outstanding achievements of early Muslims are: the development of a strict science of citation, the isnad or "backing" the development of a method of open inquiry to disprove claims, the ijtihad, which could be generally applied to many types of questio ...

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• Early Islamic philosophy - Muhammad
• Early Islamic philosophy - Dominance of Kalam
• Early Islamic philosophy - Mutazilite school
• Early Islamic philosophy - Rise of the Asharite school

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The key distinction between the old and new versions of panarchy is that for its supporters the old version of panarchy is a normative aspiration. For those scholars who use the new version, panarchy is an actually occurring real-world process to be observed and studied, not a political ideology to be espoused. Panarchy is the pattern of relationships that characterizes and define the next era in human civilization. The totality of these relations - political, economic, social - is meant to co ...

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Panarchy, Panarchy - What is Panarchy?, Panarchy - Why Panarchy?

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Culture of Egypt - Egyptian art in antiquity. The Egyptians were one of the first major civilizations to codify design elements in art. The wall paintings done in the service of the Pharaohs followed a rigid code of visual rules and meanings. Early Egyptian art is characterized by absence of linear perspective, which results in a seemingly flat space. These artists tended to create images based on what they knew, and not as much on what they see. Objects in these artworks generally do not decrease in size as they ...

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Culture of Egypt, Culture of Egypt - Language, Culture of Egypt - Literature, Culture of Egypt - Religion, Culture of Egypt - Visual art, Culture of Egypt - Egyptian art in antiquity, Culture of Egypt - Egyptian art in modern times, Culture of Egypt - Science, Culture of Egypt - Ptolemy, Culture of Egypt - Eratosthenes, Culture of Egypt - Library of Alexandria, Culture of Egypt - Ahmed Hasan Zewail, Culture of Egypt - Egyptology, Culture of Egypt - Music and dance, Culture of Egypt - Cuisine

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What little is known of pre-Christian Ireland comes from a few references in Roman writings, Irish poetry and myth, and archaeology. The earliest inhabitants of Ireland, people of a mid-Stone Age, or Mesolithic, culture, arrived sometime after 8000 BC, when the climate had become more hospitable following the retreat of the polar icecaps. About three or four millennia later, agriculture was introduced from the continent, leading to the establishment of a high Neolithic culture, characterized by the appearance of huge stone monuments, many of ...

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History of Ireland, History of Ireland - Early history: 8000 BC–AD 400, History of Ireland - Early Christian Ireland 400–800, History of Ireland - Early medieval era 800–1166, History of Ireland - Later Medieval Ireland, History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185, History of Ireland - The Lordship of Ireland 1185–1254, History of Ireland - Gaelic Resurgence Norman Decline 1254–1360, History of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 and Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801, History of Ireland - Re-conquest and rebellion, History of Ireland - Civil Wars and Penal Laws, History of Ireland - Colonial Ireland, History of Ireland - Union with Great Britain 1801-1922, History of Ireland - Home Rule Easter 1916 and the War of Independence, History of Ireland - Free State/Republic 1922-present, History of Ireland - Northern Ireland, History of Ireland - Footnotes

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In the past 50 years, anthropologists have greatly revised our understanding of the tribe. Franz Boas removed the idea of unilineal cultural evolution from the realm of serious anthropological research as too simplistic, allowing tribes to be studied in their own right, rather than stepping stones to civilization or "living fossils." Anthropologists such as Richard Lee and Marshall Sahlins began publishing studies that showed tribal life as an easy, safe life, the opposite of the traditional theoretical supposition. In the title to his book, ...

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Tribalism, Tribalism - Tribes and tribalism in anthropology, Tribalism - Tribalism and violence, Tribalism - Tribalism and evolution, Tribalism - New tribalism

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Throughout history, patriotic feeling has often been linked to religion. At various points in history, particularly in time of war, various relations of religion and patriotism have prevailed. In one variant, patriotic participants in a war acknowledge that the enemy worships the same god, but judge that this god is on their own side, thus providing the external justification for patriotism noted just above. This is perhaps a fair characterization of the attitude of many of the participants in the American Civil War or most of the fro ...

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Patriotism, Patriotism - Usage and application, Patriotism - Forms of patriotism, Patriotism - The ethics of patriotism, Patriotism - Patriotism vs. universal brotherhood, Patriotism - Patriotism for other countries?, Patriotism - Patriotism and democracy, Patriotism - An evolutionary origin of patriotism?, Patriotism - Patriotism and religion, Patriotism - Sources and further reading

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Before 1875, Marx said little about what in practice would characterize a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” believing that planning in advance the details of a future socialist system constituted the fallacy of "utopian socialism." Thus, Marx used the term very infrequently. When he did use it, the term "dictatorship" describes control by an entire class, rather than a single sovereign individual (dictator rei gerendae causa), over another class. In this way, according to Marx, the bourgeois state, being a system of class ...

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Dictatorship of the proletariat, Dictatorship of the proletariat - Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat, Dictatorship of the proletariat - The dictatorship of the proletariat since Lenin, Dictatorship of the proletariat - Quotations

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Though Roth has re-used ideas and characterizations from his own body of work before, American Pastoral contains perhaps his most blatant act of "self-plagiarisation". In it he has Seymour Levov's father, Lou, complain bitterly about his friends' anti-Black animosity (steming from their rage at the destruction of their businesses and neighborhoods during Newark's race riots): "I'm by the pool and my wonderful friends look up from the papers and they tell me they ought to take the schvartzes and line 'em up and shoot 'em. ...

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American Pastoral, American Pastoral - Plot, American Pastoral - Connections, American Pastoral - Quotes

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Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben used this concept for his book Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Agamben describes the homo sacer as an individual who exists in the law as an exile. There is, he thinks, a paradox: It is only because of the law that society can recognize the individual as homo sacer, and so the law that mandates the exclusion is also what gives the individual an identity. Agamben describes the effect of homo sacer as "bare life", or a schism of one's biological and political liv ...

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Homo sacer, Homo sacer - In Ancient Rome, Homo sacer - Homo Sacer according to Agamben

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