Turkey

Turkey is one of the 20 most populous countries in the world.

History

Turkey, which occupies Asia Minor and is also also known as Anatolia was important in prehistoric periods and in antiquity. It was occupied in classical and medieval times by the Turkish peoples and became the seat of the Seljuk and Ottoman empires. The Ottoman empire ruled much of what is now the Middle East well into modern times, until it ws reduced to what is now Turkey in the 20th century.

Other Sociology

Connections with other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change are significant in considering Turkey

Other peoples

Turkey is connected to various other nations. Some of those yet to be connected include Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, Syria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile Kazakhstan, Burkina F, Cambodia, Malawi.

Asiatic peoples

Saudia Arabia belongs to Asiatic peoples along with Saudi Arabia.

It belongs particularly Middle Eastern peoples along with Iraq. The bulk of Turkey is on the peninsula called Asia Minor, and is the home of the Anatolian peoples. Egypt has been closely connected. Persian peoples including those of Afghanistan can be connected. Iran can be connected. North African peoples including those of Algeria can be connected. Morocco can be connected. There are connections with Levantine, Mesopotamian peoples, and Arabian peoples.

There are also connections with Central Asia including some peoples of China and with Uzbekistan.

There are also connections to South Asian peoples including those of Nepal. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Bangladesh can be connected.

It is less directly connected with with the Orient including South Korea. China can be connected. Japan can be connected.

Southeast asia including Burma can be connected. The Southeast Asian mainland including Thailand can be connected. Vietnam can be connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including the Philippines can be connected. Indonesia can be connected.

Connections with Western civilization including nations such as Peru are significant. Latin peoples such as those of Spain are also significant. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples such as those of France can be considered. Hispanic peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples such as those of Colombia can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. There is a long history of conflict with Northeast European peoples such as those in Poland. Ukraine can be connected. Russia can be connected. Anglic peoples such as those of Canada can be connected. British peoples such as those of the United Kingdom can be connected. Anglo-American peoples including those of the United States are important. Germanic peoples such as those of Germany can be connected.

Connections with African peoples such as those of Uganda are also useful. Eastern African peoples such as those of Kenya can be connected. Northern East African peoples such as those of Ethiopia can be connected. Central East African peoples such as those of Tanzania can be connected. Interior East African peoples such as those of Sudan can be connected. Western African peoples such as those of Nigeria are not strongly connected. Central African peoples such as those of Congo (DR) can be connected. Southern African peoples such as those of South Africa can be connected.

There is less of a connection with American Indian peoples including peoples of Peru. Middle American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Andean peoples such as those of Colombia can be connected. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. North American Indian peoples such as those of Canada can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples such as those of the eastern United States can be connected. Western North American Indian peoples such as those of the western United States can be connected.

Major cities and other important communities are not yet listed, except for one:

Social structure and change

Social change can be considered. Particular changes including the agricultural revolution can be considered. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The Industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrialization, and late industrial revolution can be considered. Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected.

Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, and agrarian society can be connected. Industrial society can be connected.

Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, and anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Particular traditions are Abrahamic, principally Islamic but also Judaism, Christianity including old christsianity, Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Mormonism can be connected. Secularism has become important. It was formerly pagan, with a little bit of Asiatic religion. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured organization can be identified. Religious practice can be connected. Religious beliefs can be connected.

Government is highly significant, not only to it but to neighboring regions in all periods of history. Government activity, government structure, and law can be considered. Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected.

Economics with economic activities, industries, and economic systems is also important. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools will be important. Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events will be useful. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, philosophy will be useful. Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technology, and other artifacts can be considered.

Anthropology

Particular groups can be connected. Human geography including European geography and Asian geography can be connected. Human ecology including human effects on the environment, relations with other life, and environmental effects on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and birth can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interactions, and social presentation can be connected.

Applications of Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography may not be useful for some time. Paul worked and preached here.

Science will be useful in exaining this nation. Physics, chemistry, and astronomy are not as well connected as earth science and biology.


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