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The term technocracy is derived from the Greek words τέχνη, tekhne meaning skill and κράτος, kratos meaning power, as in governance, or rule.William Henry Smyth, a California engineer, is usually credited with inventing the word technocracy in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers", although the ...
A similar system is the Iqta‘, used by medieval Islamic societies of the middle east and north Africa. This functioned much like the feudal system but generally had titles that weren't granted to a family dynasty but to individuals at the behest of the sultan and generally only required a tax from the lower classes, instead of military ...
Umm Kulthum. Many instruments originate in the Middle East region.Most popular of the stringed instruments is the oud, a pear-shaped lute that traditionally had four strings, although current instruments have up to six courses consisting of one or two strings each.
Mumford divides the development of technology into three overlapping phases: eotechnic (Greek, eos meaning "dawn"), paleotechnic and neotechnic. [1]The first phase of technically civilized life (AD 1000 to 1800) begins with the clock, to Mumford the most important basis for the development of capitalism because time thereby becomes fungible (thus transferable).
Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem Traditional flute player from Iraqi folk troupe Mizwad, a type of bagpipes played mostly in Tunisia and Libya Mizmar ini Display the Riqq is one of the instruments used only in the Egyptian and Arabic music, and in most of its varieties Sagat in Khan El-Khalili, Cairo
The Sykes–Picot Agreement (/ ˈ s aɪ k s ˈ p iː k oʊ,-p ɪ ˈ k oʊ,-p iː ˈ k oʊ / [1]) was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.
The Green Party’s 2024 U.S. presidential candidate Jill Stein wrote: “Donald Trump proposes to take over the Gaza strip, build a ‘Riviera of the Middle East’, forcibly relocate ...
Official symbol of the Technocracy movement (Technocracy Inc.). The Monad emblem signifies balance between consumption and production. The Technocracy movement was a social movement active in the United States and Canada in the 1930s which favored technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy and concomitant partisan politics.