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Tong AP World Frifel
Tong AP World Frifeldt
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |