United Kingdom


The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is one of the 25 largest in the world. It is still far more important in world affairs than its size alone would indicate. History There are some details know about it during prehistory and antiquity from archaeological studies. Its written history begin in the classical and medieval period. Durong modern times it rose in wealth, power, and influence to become the greatest power in the world, although it has since declined from that peak.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Sociology Peoples Nations
Other Sociology Other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change will be vital to examination of the United Kingom. Other Peoples The connections with other peoples can be examined by considering other nations. Western Civilization is important, but Asiatic peoples, African peoples, and American Indian peoples can be connected.	Links to other Sites Wikipedia- United Kingdom CIA World Factbook - United Kingdom
Other Nations This has connections with Macedonia, Slovenia, Botswana, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Estonia, and Mauritius. Western Civilization The UK is one of the foremost representatives of Western Civilization. Kosovo also belongs. The United Kingdom includes the oldest of the Anglic peoples. It is also closely connected to Ireland. Other nations of this group have derived much of their culture and population from it. The United States originated as a group of British colonies, and in spite of its political independence from the late 18th century, continues to share a great deal of culture. Canada also originated as British colonies which were ruled by Britain, with independence coming gradually. Jamaica was ruled by Britain for a time. Australia was settled chiefly by British colonists. New Zealand was also settled by the British to some extent. Latin peoples can be connected. Panama does not seem to have been closely connected. French peoples are the most closely connected. Many of the British peoples and their culture and institutions have roots in France, and these peoples have been rivals and sometimes allies through modern times. Haiti is less directly connected. Italic peoples such as those of Italy have had at some connections with what is now the UK since Roman times. Hispanic peoples are less directly connected. Uruguay has a fairly distant connection. Spain is the most closely connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples can be connected. Mexico seems to be weakly connected to the United Kingdomg. Guatemala seems to be weakly connected. Cuba seems to be weakly connected. The Dominican Republic seems to be weakly connected. Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico are weakly connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples including Argentina and Paraguay are somewhat connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples such as those of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador are also weakly connected. Hispanic Peruvian American peoples including those of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia can be considered. Lusitanic peoples such as those of Portugal and Brazil are not strongly connected. It is also closely connected with Germanic peoples, including those of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland. Connections with Scandinavian peoples such as those of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway can be made. There are also connections with Northeast European peoples including those of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Belarus, Slovakia, Moldova, Lithuania, and Latvia. It is also connected with Balkan peoples such as those of Romania, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Albania. It has been closely connected with Asiatic peoples and nations such as Kuwait. It has had some connections with Middle Eastern peoples since approximately late classical times, including Oman. There were connections to North African peoples including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Lebanon. Egypt was partly ruled by it. It attempted to rule Turkey, but unsuccessfully. Levantine peoples including those of Syria, Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories can be connected. It was fairly closely connected to Persian peoples including Iran and Afghanistan. There is some connection to Mesopotamian peoples including Iraq. There is some connection with Arabian peoples including those of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates. For a couple of centuries in modern times, it ruled many of the South Asian peoples including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and was influenced by them. Oriental peoples including those of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea have been significant. Southeast Asian peoples including those of New Zealand have been connected. Mainland Southeast Asia including Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, and Singapore has been connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea have been weakly connected. Australia has been connected. Central Asia including Armenia has not been well connected. West Asian peoples such as those of Azerbajjan and Georgiahave been only weakly connected. Inner Asian peoples such as those of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, and Turkmenistan can be connected. Mongolian peoples such as those of Mongolia can be connected. It is connected to African peoples such as those of Namibia. West African peoples such as those of Liberia can be connected. Southern Coastal West Africa including Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivorie, Benin, and Togo can be connected. Western Coastal West Africa including Senegal, Guinea, and Sierra Leone can also be considered. Interior West African peoples including those of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania can be considered. East African peoples such as those of Eritrea can be connected. Northern East African peoples including Ethiopia and Somalia can be connected. Interior East African peoples including Sudan and Chad can be considered. Central East African peoples including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi can be considered. It was prominent among Southern African peoples, especially because of its rule of South Africa. Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Lesotho are also connected. Central African peoples including Congo (DR), Cameroon, Angola, the Central African Republic, and Congo (Republic) are connected. There are some connections with American Indian peoples such as are found in Jamaica. North American Indian peoples such as those of the United States and Canada can be connected. Middle American peoples such as those of Panama are weakly connected. Caribbean peoples such as those of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico and the southwestern United States are weakly connected. Meso-American peoples such as those of Mexico and Guatemala are weakly connected. South American Indians such as those of Uruguay are less directly connected. Amazonian peoples including those of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay can be considered. Andean peoples including those of Colombia and Argentina Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina and Chile are weakly connected. Communities Important cities include: London Social structure and change Social change Particular changes and movements including the agricultural revolution and agrarian revolution can be connected. The industrial revolution originated in the United Kingdom and is well developed there. The early industrial revolution and middle industrial revolution can be connected. The late industrial revolution can be connected. 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 societies can be considered. Industrial societies can be connected. Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, and anthropological structure can be connected.
Institutions Religion including religious organization, practice, and beliefs has been important. Religious traditions including pagan religion, secularism, and Oriental religion can be connected. Abrahamic religion including Judaism and Islam can be connected. Christianity including old christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthdoxy, and Mormonism can be connected. Government including government activity, government organization, and law has been highly important. Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government have been significant. Economics including economic systems, industries, and economic activity have been important. Education including schools, educational organization, cultural institutions, teaching, and research has bee inmportant. Families including particular families, kinship, parenting, and marriage have also been important.
Culture Culture is vital to the study of the United Kingdom. Behavioral culture including cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs will be significant. Conceptual culture including philosophy, applied science, mathematics, literature, graphic arts, and language is vital. Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communications technology, transportation technology, clothing and dress, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology is vital.
Anthropology including social foundations is highly useful. Particular groups can be connected. Human geography including European geography is useful. Human ecology including the effects of people on the environment, relations with other life, and the effects of the environment 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, deaths, migration, and births can be connected. Applications of personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography will be considered. Shakespeare Newton Adam Smith Watt Dalton Faraday Maxwell Darwin Marx More information on applications and connections with science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology will be included as the site develops.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is one of the 25 largest in the world. It is still far more important in world affairs than its size alone would indicate.

History

There are some details know about it during prehistory and antiquity from archaeological studies. Its written history begin in the classical and medieval period. Durong modern times it rose in wealth, power, and influence to become the greatest power in the world, although it has since declined from that peak.

Other Sociology

Other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change will be vital to examination of the United Kingom.

Other Peoples

The connections with other peoples can be examined by considering other nations. Western Civilization is important, but Asiatic peoples, African peoples, and American Indian peoples can be connected.

Other Nations

This has connections with Macedonia, Slovenia, Botswana, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Estonia, and Mauritius.

Western Civilization

The UK is one of the foremost representatives of Western Civilization. Kosovo also belongs.

The United Kingdom includes the oldest of the Anglic peoples. It is also closely connected to Ireland. Other nations of this group have derived much of their culture and population from it. The United States originated as a group of British colonies, and in spite of its political independence from the late 18th century, continues to share a great deal of culture. Canada also originated as British colonies which were ruled by Britain, with independence coming gradually. Jamaica was ruled by Britain for a time. Australia was settled chiefly by British colonists. New Zealand was also settled by the British to some extent.

Latin peoples can be connected. Panama does not seem to have been closely connected.

French peoples are the most closely connected. Many of the British peoples and their culture and institutions have roots in France, and these peoples have been rivals and sometimes allies through modern times. Haiti is less directly connected.

Italic peoples such as those of Italy have had at some connections with what is now the UK since Roman times.

Hispanic peoples are less directly connected. Uruguay has a fairly distant connection. Spain is the most closely connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples can be connected. Mexico seems to be weakly connected to the United Kingdomg. Guatemala seems to be weakly connected. Cuba seems to be weakly connected. The Dominican Republic seems to be weakly connected. Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico are weakly connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples including Argentina and Paraguay are somewhat connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples such as those of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador are also weakly connected. Hispanic Peruvian American peoples including those of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia can be considered.

Lusitanic peoples such as those of Portugal and Brazil are not strongly connected.

It is also closely connected with Germanic peoples, including those of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland.

Connections with Scandinavian peoples such as those of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway can be made.

There are also connections with Northeast European peoples including those of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Belarus, Slovakia, Moldova, Lithuania, and Latvia.

It is also connected with Balkan peoples such as those of Romania, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Albania.

It has been closely connected with Asiatic peoples and nations such as Kuwait.

It has had some connections with Middle Eastern peoples since approximately late classical times, including Oman. There were connections to North African peoples including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Lebanon. Egypt was partly ruled by it. It attempted to rule Turkey, but unsuccessfully. Levantine peoples including those of Syria, Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories can be connected. It was fairly closely connected to Persian peoples including Iran and Afghanistan. There is some connection to Mesopotamian peoples including Iraq. There is some connection with Arabian peoples including those of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates.

For a couple of centuries in modern times, it ruled many of the South Asian peoples including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and was influenced by them.

Oriental peoples including those of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea have been significant.

Southeast Asian peoples including those of New Zealand have been connected. Mainland Southeast Asia including Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, and Singapore has been connected. The Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea have been weakly connected. Australia has been connected.

Central Asia including Armenia has not been well connected. West Asian peoples such as those of Azerbajjan and Georgiahave been only weakly connected. Inner Asian peoples such as those of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, and Turkmenistan can be connected. Mongolian peoples such as those of Mongolia can be connected.

It is connected to African peoples such as those of Namibia.

West African peoples such as those of Liberia can be connected. Southern Coastal West Africa including Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivorie, Benin, and Togo can be connected. Western Coastal West Africa including Senegal, Guinea, and Sierra Leone can also be considered. Interior West African peoples including those of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania can be considered.

East African peoples such as those of Eritrea can be connected. Northern East African peoples including Ethiopia and Somalia can be connected. Interior East African peoples including Sudan and Chad can be considered. Central East African peoples including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi can be considered.

It was prominent among Southern African peoples, especially because of its rule of South Africa. Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Lesotho are also connected.

Central African peoples including Congo (DR), Cameroon, Angola, the Central African Republic, and Congo (Republic) are connected.

There are some connections with American Indian peoples such as are found in Jamaica.

North American Indian peoples such as those of the United States and Canada can be connected.

Middle American peoples such as those of Panama are weakly connected. Caribbean peoples such as those of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico and the southwestern United States are weakly connected. Meso-American peoples such as those of Mexico and Guatemala are weakly connected.

South American Indians such as those of Uruguay are less directly connected. Amazonian peoples including those of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay can be considered. Andean peoples including those of Colombia and Argentina Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina and Chile are weakly connected.

Communities

Important cities include:

London

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes and movements including the agricultural revolution and agrarian revolution can be connected. The industrial revolution originated in the United Kingdom and is well developed there. The early industrial revolution and middle industrial revolution can be connected. The late industrial revolution can be connected. 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 societies can be considered. Industrial societies can be connected.

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

Institutions

Religion including religious organization, practice, and beliefs has been important. Religious traditions including pagan religion, secularism, and Oriental religion can be connected. Abrahamic religion including Judaism and Islam can be connected. Christianity including old christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthdoxy, and Mormonism can be connected.

Government including government activity, government organization, and law has been highly important. Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government have been significant.

Economics including economic systems, industries, and economic activity have been important. Education including schools, educational organization, cultural institutions, teaching, and research has bee inmportant. Families including particular families, kinship, parenting, and marriage have also been important.

Culture

Culture is vital to the study of the United Kingdom. Behavioral culture including cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs will be significant. Conceptual culture including philosophy, applied science, mathematics, literature, graphic arts, and language is vital. Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communications technology, transportation technology, clothing and dress, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology is vital.

Anthropology including social foundations is highly useful. Particular groups can be connected. Human geography including European geography is useful. Human ecology including the effects of people on the environment, relations with other life, and the effects of the environment 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, deaths, migration, and births can be connected.

Applications of personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography will be considered.

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More information on applications and connections with science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology will be included as the site develops.