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  2. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.

  3. Orphan - Wikipedia

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    Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the United States is a minor bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". [4] In everyday use, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for them.

  4. Patronymic - Wikipedia

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    The usual noun and adjective in English is patronymic, but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside patronym. [a] The first part of the word patronym comes from Greek πατήρ patēr 'father' (GEN πατρός patros whence the combining form πατρο- patro-); [3] the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα onyma, a variant form of ὄνομα onoma 'name'. [4]

  5. Nuclear family - Wikipedia

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    An American nuclear family composed of the mother, father, and their children, c. 1955 A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.

  6. Family - Wikipedia

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    Families who use this system trace descent through both parents simultaneously and recognize multiple ancestors, but unlike with cognatic descent it is not used to form descent groups. [ 73 ] Traditionally, this is found among some groups in West Africa, India, Australia, Indonesia, Melanesia , Malaysia and Polynesia .

  7. Bilateral descent - Wikipedia

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    Families who use this system trace descent through both parents simultaneously and recognize multiple ancestors, but unlike with cognatic descent it is not used to form descent groups. [ 2 ] While bilateral descent is increasingly the norm in Western culture , traditionally it is only found among relatively few groups in West Africa , India ...

  8. Coparenting - Wikipedia

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    Post-separation co-parenting describes a situation where two parents work together to raise a child after they are divorced, separated, or never having lived together. . Advocates for co-parenting oppose the habit to grant custody of a child exclusively to a single parent and promote shared parenting as a protection of the right of children to continue to receive care and love from all pa

  9. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...