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Complexity | Complexity Theory states that critically interacting components self-organize to form potentially evolving structures exhibiting a hierarchy of emergent system properties. |
Ice Age | Ice Age is a long period of time when there is generic geological temperature reduction in the Earths surface and atmosphere,resulting in the presence of continental and polar ice sheets,and alpine glaciers.Life had to adapt to the climate change. |
Goldilocks Principle | The Goldilocks Principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes.Earth is just right for humans to live,otherwise it would cause changes so humand cant live there. |
Gaia | The theory that the earth was a living organism functions like a human body.This is World History because all indigants believed this. In western civilization the didn't believe this. |
Agrarian Revolution | Before the Agrarian Revolution,people would go around searching and gathering food and hunting wild animals.The population increased and the amount of food decreased and amount of hunting space decreased.they started growing food which changed history. |
Entropy | Entopy is a degree of disored or random events that cause distruption in the way of living. Like the bombing of Pearl History which caused a lot of disorder. |
Emergence | Becoming important. It emerges from the state of being unimportant to the state in developing into something more. |
Integration | De-segregation. Mainly the outcome of neccisity felt by the nation-states to integrate their economies in order to achieve rapid economic development. |
Paradox | Paradox is a statement that seems absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. It can be some biased decisions in life that people go through. Most are false statements or half-truth statements. |
Theory | A system of ideas intended to explain something about a topic. There's a lot of different theories in the world and it all depends on what topic is on discussion. |
Evolution | Different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth. The significance is that without evolution there would only be the simple organisms that were formed billions of years ago. |
Regime | A form of government. The United States has one of the oldest regimes active in the world. |