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Tong AP World Frifel

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Complexity Definition: characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement. Significance: Supplies attention in natural sciences, but allows famous human interactions in history to be categorized.
Ice Age Definition: A geological period of long-term decrease in temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Significance: During the ice age, human culture was based on hunting, due to the inability to farm.
Goldilocks Principle Definition: States that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. Significance: Some ancient people lived in a goldilocks society, where they had a balance for everything (hunting, crops, government, population, etc.).
Gaia Definition: Greek goddess personifying the Earth, the Greek version of "Mother Nature," or the Earth Mother. Significance: It was a way for humans to explain the earth, in a way that personified it as a living creature that was not owned by them.
Agrarian Revolution Definition: A change in farming methods that allowed for a greater production of food. Significance: The Human Race experiences a population explosion due to the higher availability of food in the 18th and 19th century.
Integration Definition: The act of combining or adding parts to make a unified whole Significance: In the time of different empires, when a certain empire overthrew, or took over, another, their laws were integrated into that civilization, along with the people.
Paradox Definition: A self-contradictory and false proposition Significance: Many scientists, or famous people in history, have claimed rivals’ statements as paradoxes, and offered different explanations to the same phenomenon.
Theory Definition: An idea of a statement based on practicle facts to explain an unknown principal not yet justified. Significance: Ancient civilizations developed theories about the world around them, and they became stories of explanation (legends).
Evolution Definition: Change over time in inherited traits found in populations of organisms Significance: Evolution connects the similarities and differences of all organisms on Earth, with evidence; Explains the changes that humans went through in time.
Regime Definition: A mode or system of rule or government Significance: In the times of creating belief systems, as a mode of rule was necessary. It also allowed for civilizations to have a government.
Entropy Definition: Lack of order or predictability Significance: We, as humans, at one time, did not have order, especially during certain reigns, empires, or times of difficult survival, as in the ice age.
Emergence Definition: The way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Significance: Simple ideas founded religions, rulers, and the simple laws of government in ancient times.
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