Nigeria

Nigeria is one of the ten most most populous nations of the world.

History

Prehistory, antiquity, and classical and medieval times are not well known. The modern history of Nigeria can be followed better. The future might also be considered.

Other Sociology

Other peoples of the world

Nations

The nations Nigeria has been connected to are listed below under the peoples they belong to. [These will include Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Malawi, Ecuador, Niger, Guatemala, Senegal Angola, Zimbabwe, Mali, Zambia].

African peoples

Nigeria belongs to African peoples along with Cameroon.

It particularly belongs to Western African peoples along with Ghana.

Eastern African peoples such as Uganda can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected. Central East African peoples including those of Kenya can be connected. Tanzania cam be cpmmected. Northern East African peoples including those of Ethopia can be connected.

There are connections to Central African peoples including Congo.

There are connections to Southern African peoples including those of Madagascar. South Africa can be connected. Mozambique can be connected.

Western civilization

Western Civilization has been connected with Western civilization including Australia.

Anglic peoples such as Canada can be connected. British peoples including those of the UK can be connected. Anglo-American peoples such as those of the United States can be connected.

Latin peoples such as those of Venezuela can be connected. French peoples such as those of France can be connected. Lusitanic peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. Hispanic peoples such as those of Peru can be connected. Spain can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples such as those of Mexico can be considered. Hispanic Colombian American peoples such as those of Colombia can be connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Italic peoples such as those of Italy can be connected.

Germanic peoples such as those of Germany can be connected.

Northeast European peoples such as those of Poland can be connected. Russia can be connected. Ukraine can be connected.

Balkan peoples including those of Romania can be connected.

Asiatic peoples

Connections with Asiatic peoples are extended to Syria.

Middle Eastern peoples such as Yemen can be connected. North African peoples including those of Algeria can be connected. Morocco can be connected. Egypt can be connected. Turkey can be connected. Arabian peoples including those of Saudi Arabia can be connected. Persian peoples such as those of Afghanistan can be connected. Iran can be connected. Mesopotamian peoples including those of Iraq can be connected.

South Asian peoples such as Sri Lanka can be connected. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Bangladesh can also be connected. Nepal can be connected.

Southeast Asian peoples such as Australia can be connected. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including the Philippines can be considered. Indonesia can be connected. The Southeast Asian Mainland including Malaysia can be connected. Burma can be connected. Thailand can be connected. Vietnam can be connected.

There are also connections to Oriental peoples such as Taiwan. China can be connected. Japan can be connected. South Korea can be connected. North Korea can be connected.

Central Asian peoples including those of Uzbekistan can be connected.

American Indian peoples

American Indian peoples such as those found in Venezuela are less well connected.

South American Indian peoples of Peru can be considered. Amazonian peoples including those of Brazil Argentina can be connected. Andean peoples including those of Colombia Argentina can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected.

Middle American Indian peoples of Mexico can be considered. Southwestern American Indian peoples of the southwestern United States can be connected.

North American Indian peoples of Canada can be considered. Eastern North American Indian peoples including those of the eastern United States can be connected. Western North American Indian peoples including those of the western United States can be connected.

Communities

Major cities and other important communities are not yet listed.

Cities that belong to other peoples and nations such as Tokyo, Canton, Seoul, Shanghai can be connected.

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes including the agricultural revolution will also be considered. The Agrarian revolution and changes such as Bronze age movements, early Iron age movements, late Iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution and middle industrial revolution can be connected. The Late industrial revolution has progressed slowly because important factors and conditions are missing.

Social change factors such as cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be considered. Institutional change can be connected. Social change processes such as innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected.

Social types

Industrial society inlcuding late industrial society, middle industrial society, and early industrial society can be considered. Agrarian society including early modern society, late Iron age society, early Iron age society, and Bronze age society can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected.

Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, and class structure can be considered.

Institutions

Religion

Details of major traditions are not yet clear. Abrahamic religion including Islam is important. Judaism is significant. Christianity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, and Mormonism can be connected. Pagan traditions including African pagan, Asiatic pagan, Eiropean pagan, American Indian pagan, and neopagan religion are significant. Secularism is present, and Oriental traditions probably minimal. Religious organization is partly structured, partly fragmented, and partly unstructured. Religious practice can be considered. Religious belief can be considered

Government

Particular governments including local government and national government will be significant. International government including traditional empires and colonial empires can be considered. Modern compacts including world government, regional organizations, special purpose organizations, and temporary alliances can be considered. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations will be important. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systmes, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical service, bullding, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including distribution and exchange, consumption, and production can be connected.

Education

Particular schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families including marriage and parenting can be connected. Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, performing arts, games, sports, and cultural events is significant. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy is highly significant. Material culture such as industrial technology, buildings, foodstuffs, clothing and dress, transportation techniology, communication technology, and other artifacts is important.

Anthropology

Particular groups may be useful in Nigeria. Human geography is useful principally for African geography. Nigeria has an approximate area of 923,768 km2. The estimated mean population density is 149.69 persons/ km2. Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, other life, and effects of peoples on the evironment can be considered. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be considered. Demography including births, migration, deaths, population size and structure, and population change will be significant. Population is estimated (July 2008) at 138,283,240. Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and social group types may be useful.

Personal studies

I not yet have individuals that can connect to biography

Pyschology including behavioral fundamentals, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental I disorders, personality, and social psyschology is indorectly useful. The human body including body systems, body function, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance may be indirectly useful.

Science

Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organisms, systematics, ecology, and biohistory may be somewhat useful. Earth science, which includes geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory can be connected. Astronomy which includes local astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, and cosmology can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.


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