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Hace 1 día · China is a country of East Asia. It is the largest of all Asian countries and has one of the largest populations of any country in the world. Occupying nearly the entire East Asian landmass, it covers approximately one-fourteenth of the land area of Earth. Learn more about China, including its history and culture.
Hace 5 días · Définition simple. Le réchauffement climatique est un phénomène global de transformation du climat caractérisé par une augmentation générale des températures moyennes, et qui modifie durablement les équilibres météorologiques et les écosystèmes. C’est une des principales réalités du phénomène global du changement climatique.
Hace 1 día · e. The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...
Hace 3 días · secularism, any movement in society directed away from otherworldliness to life on earth. In the Middle Ages in Europe there was a strong tendency for religious persons to despise human affairs and to meditate on God and the afterlife. As a reaction to this medieval tendency, secularism, at the time of the Renaissance, exhibited itself in the ...
Hace 2 días · Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence. As a 2015 article put it, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now." Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi's name is associated with the paradox because of a casual ...
Hace 1 día · In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans ...
Hace 2 días · Augustus of Prima Porta. Rome had begun expanding shortly after the founding of the Roman Republic in the 6th century BC, though not outside the Italian peninsula until the 3rd century BC. Thus, it was an "empire" (a great power) long before it had an emperor. The Republic was not a nation-state in the modern sense, but a network of self-ruled towns (with varying degrees of independence from ...
