Society

Though increasingly frowned upon across much of today's world, throughout history adolescent marriages have been commonplace in many cultures.

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Across parts of Asia, farming bears and tortuosly extracting their bile for profit is unfortunately all too common.

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In many cultures, female children have often been seen as unwanted burdens to the extent that they have been murdered by their parents while still babies.

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Whether as an individual or a group, to live in exile means to live away from one's home, often by force.

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Hundreds of millions of people adhere to the beliefs and doctrines of this ages-old Christian church.

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As you will see, some of the world's biggest, most powerful military forces also have some of the best institutions to educate their up-and-coming leadership.

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From his laboratory work in Menlo Park, New Jersey and elsewhere, Edison went on to have 1,093 patents to his name.

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Modern Quechua are descendants of the Canaris, Chancas, Huancas, Incas, and other South American indigenous peoples.

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From the 2nd Century BC until the 15th Century AD, this trade route connected the Eastern and Western worlds.

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As the name implies, hunter-gatherers are peoples who obtain subsistence by collecting their necessities from nature.

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A culture hearth is a location that saw the origins of a culture from which it later spread.

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The Mursi people struggle to maintain their traditional ways amidst land disputes and modernization in East Africa.

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Pregnancy can be trying enough. The last thing a woman wants is to be threatened with losing her job for taking necessary time to care for her infant and herself.

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The two largest Kiwi cities lie on North Island, with Auckland being the lone member of the 1,000,000+ club.

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Plants, animals, diseases, ideologies, and more were transferred between the Americas and the Old World following 1492.

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In each of these 5 countries, more than one-third of women feel that men are justified in beating their wives under certain circumstances.

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Socialism strives for common ownership and governance in economics and society in general.

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The term superpowers is used to describe countries that have a dominant position that influences much of the globe.

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Most modern Tajiks are speakers of Persian languages and adherents to Islam living in Central Asia.

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Developed countries in the EU, Southeast Asia, and North America have the most personal computers per capita.

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