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Total articles: 854
Basics (6 articles) edit
Auxiliary sciences of history (20 articles) edit
Emotions and traits (31 articles) edit
- Agreeableness (Level 4)
- Anger (Level 3)
- Anxiety (Level 4)
- Compassion
- Conscientiousness (Level 4)
- Courage (Level 4)
- Curiosity (Level 4)
- Dignity (Level 4)
- Disgust (Level 4)
- Doubt (Level 4)
- Envy
- Extraversion and introversion (Level 4)
- Fear (Level 3)
- Guilt (emotion) (Level 4)
- Happiness (Level 3)
- Hatred (Level 4)
- Hope (Level 4)
- Humour (Level 3)
- Jealousy (Level 4)
- Love (Level 3)
- Lust (Level 4)
- Neuroticism (Level 4)
- Openness to experience (Level 4)
- Pleasure (Level 4)
- Pride
- Sadness (Level 4)
- Self-esteem (Level 4)
- Shame (Level 4)
- Surprise (Level 4)
- Suffering (Level 4)
Geography (6 articles) edit
- Map (Level 3)
- Human geography
- Physical geography
- Surveying (Level 4)
- Geographic information system
Education (280 articles) edit
Basics (26 articles) edit
Mass media (381 articles) edit
For technology of mass communication (television, radio, etc.) see technology section
History by topic (40 articles) edit
- Archive
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Civil rights movements (Level 4)
- Cold War (Level 3)
- Collective farming (Level 4)
- Decolonization (Level 4)
- Great Depression (Level 3)
- Green Revolution (Level 4)
- Information Age (Level 4)
- Digital Revolution
- Non-Aligned Movement
- Post–World War II economic expansion (Level 4)
- Second Industrial Revolution
- Space exploration (Level 3)
- War on Terror (Level 4)
- History of art (Level 2)
- History of atheism (Level 4)
- Cultural history
- Legal history (Level 4)
- Natural history
- Maritime history (Level 4)
- Military history (Level 4)
- History of religion (Level 4)
History of science and technology (21 articles) edit
- History of science (Level 2)
- History of technology (Level 3)
- History of agriculture (Level 3)
- History of medicine (Level 3)
- History of mathematics (Level 3)
- History of astronomy (Level 4)
- History of biology (Level 4)
- History of chemistry (Level 4)
- History of communication (Level 4)
- History of computing hardware (Level 4)
- History of economic thought (Level 4)
- History of geography (Level 4)
- History of geology (Level 4)
- History of linguistics (Level 4)
- History of physics (Level 4)
- History of psychology (Level 4)
- History of sociology (Level 4)
- History of transport (Level 4)
Prehistory (60 articles) edit
General (2 articles) edit
Human evolution (41 articles) edit
- Human evolution (Level 3)
- Australopithecine
- Homo
Ancient history (10 articles) edit
Anthropology (6 articles) edit
Basics edit
Sexuality and gender (51 articles) edit
Family and kinship (63 articles) edit
General (13 articles) edit
Interpersonal relationships (9 articles) edit
Marriage and parenting (22 articles) edit
Family members (19 articles) edit
Language (236 articles) edit
Basics (73 articles) edit
- Constructed language
- Grammar (Level 3)
- Syntax (Level 4)
- Sentence (Level 4)
- Phrase (Level 4)
- Noun (Level 4)
- Verb (Level 4)
- Adjective (Level 4)
- Adverb (Level 4)
- Pronoun (Level 4)
- Preposition and postposition (Level 4)
- Conjunction (Level 4)
- Interjection (Level 4)
- Affirmation and negation
- Grammatical aspect
- Grammatical case
- Grammatical tense (Level 4)
- Speech act (Level 4)
- Linguistics (Level 3)
- Literacy (Level 4)
- Morphology (Level 4)
- Philology
- Phonetics (Level 4)
- Phonology (Level 4)
- Pronunciation
- Rhetoric (Level 4)
- Semantics (Level 4)
- Semiotics (Level 4)
- Sociolinguistics (Level 4)
- Speech (Level 3)
- Translation (Level 4)
- Word (Level 3)
- Writing (Level 2)
Language families (30 articles) edit
- Language family (Level 4)
- Afroasiatic languages (Level 4)
- Algic languages (Level 4)
- Altaic languages
- Austroasiatic languages (Level 4)
- Austronesian languages (Level 4)
- Creole language (Level 4)
- Dravidian languages (Level 4)
- Eskimo–Aleut languages (Level 4)
- Indo-European languages (Level 3)
- Kartvelian languages (Level 4)
- Khoisan languages (Level 4)
- Niger–Congo languages (Level 4)
- Nilo-Saharan languages (Level 4)
- North Caucasian languages (Level 4)
- Sign language (Level 4)
- Sino-Tibetan languages (Level 4)
- Tai–Kadai languages (Level 4)
- Trans–New Guinea languages (Level 4)
- Tungusic languages
- Turkic languages (Level 4)
- Uralic languages (Level 4)
- Uto-Aztecan languages (Level 4)
Alphabets and writing systems (21 articles) edit
- Braille (Level 4)
- Arabic alphabet (Level 3)
- Brahmic scripts (Level 3)
- Chinese characters (Level 3)
- Cuneiform script (Level 4)
- Cyrillic script (Level 3)
- Devanagari (Level 4)
- Egyptian hieroglyphs (Level 4)
- Georgian scripts
- Greek alphabet (Level 3)
- Hangul (Level 4)
- Hebrew alphabet
- Japanese writing system (Level 4)
- Latin script (Level 3)
- Maya script (Level 4)
- Morse code (Level 4)
- Phoenician alphabet (Level 4)
- Rosetta Stone (Level 4)
- Runes (Level 4)
Specific languages (112 articles) edit
General (8 articles) edit
- Esperanto (Level 4)
- Finnish language
- Japanese language (Level 3)
- Hungarian language (Level 4)
- Korean language (Level 4)
- Quechuan languages (Level 4)
- Sumerian language (Level 4)
- Thai language (Level 4)
Afroasiatic languages (18 articles) edit
- Akkadian (Level 4)
- Amharic (Level 4)
- Arabic (Level 3)
- Aramaic language (Level 4)
- Berber languages (Level 4)
- Egyptian language (Level 4)
- Hebrew language (Level 4)
- Hausa language (Level 4)
- Oromo language (Level 4)
- Somali language (Level 4)
Austronesian languages (8 articles) edit
- Cebuano language (Level 4)
- Indonesian language (Level 4)
- Javanese language (Level 4)
- Madurese language
- Malagasy language (Level 4)
- Malay language (Level 4)
- Sundanese language (Level 4)
- Tagalog language (Level 4)
Austro-Asiatic languages (2 articles) edit
Indo-European languages (54 articles) edit
General (3 articles) edit
Indo-Aryan languages (14 articles) edit
- Assamese language (Level 4)
- Bengali language (Level 3)
- Hindustani language (Level 3)
- Marathi language (Level 4)
- Nepali language (Level 4)
- Odia language (Level 4)
- Pali (Level 4)
- Sanskrit (Level 4)
- Sindhi language (Level 4)
- Sinhalese language (Level 4)
- Punjabi language (Level 4)
- Gujarati language (Level 4)
Romance languages (11 articles) edit
- Catalan language (Level 4)
- French language (Level 3)
- Italian language (Level 4)
- Latin (Level 3)
- Portuguese language (Level 3)
- Romanian language (Level 4)
- Spanish language (Level 3)
Germanic languages (16 articles) edit
- Danish language (Level 4)
- Dutch language (Level 4)
- English language (Level 3)
- German language (Level 3)
- Norwegian language
- Swedish language (Level 4)
- Yiddish (Level 4)
Iranian languages (3 articles) edit
Slavic languages (7 articles) edit
Dravidian languages (4 articles) edit
Niger–Congo languages (5 articles) edit
- Fula language (Level 4)
- Igbo language (Level 4)
- Swahili language (Level 4)
- Yoruba language (Level 4)
- Zulu language
Sino-Tibetan languages (9 articles) edit
Turkic languages (4 articles) edit
Psychology (90 articles) edit
For psychological disorders see Mental disorders
Basics (9 articles) edit
- Clinical psychology (Level 4)
- Cognitive psychology (Level 4)
- Developmental psychology (Level 4)
- Evolutionary psychology (Level 4)
- Personality psychology (Level 4)
- Psychology of religion (Level 4)
- Psychotherapy (Level 4)
- Social psychology
Psychology traditions (5 articles) edit
- Analytical psychology (Level 4)
- Behaviorism (Level 4)
- Gestalt psychology (Level 4)
- Humanistic psychology (Level 4)
- Psychoanalysis (Level 4)
Concepts (25 articles) edit
- Amnesia (Level 4)
- Attention (Level 4)
- Behavior
- Cognition (Level 4)
- Cognitive development (Level 4)
- Confirmation bias (Level 4)
- Consciousness (Level 3)
- Creativity (Level 4)
- Dream (Level 3)
- Human behavior (Level 3)
- Human intelligence (Level 4)
- Hypnosis (Level 4)
- Imagination
- Introspection (Level 4)
- Memory (Level 3)
- Mind (Level 2)
- Mood (Level 4)
- Motivation (Level 4)
- Oedipus complex (Level 4)
- Perception (Level 4)
- Personality (Level 3)
- Stereotype (Level 4)
- Temperament
- Thought (Level 3)
Economics (295 articles) edit
Basics (16 articles) edit
- Econometrics (Level 4)
- Economic growth (Level 4)
- Economy (Level 4)
- Goods (Level 4)
- Gross domestic product (Level 4)
- Interest (Level 4)
- Labour economics (Level 4)
- Macroeconomics (Level 3)
- Microeconomics (Level 3)
- Service (Level 4)
- Subsidy (Level 4)
- Supply and demand (Level 3)
Money (35 articles) edit
Basics (6 articles) edit
Specific currencies (29 articles) edit
Banking (24 articles) edit
Business (145 articles) edit
- Actuarial science
- Management accounting
- Bankruptcy (Level 4)
- Business cycle
- Capital (Level 4)
- Cheque (Level 4)
- Cooperative
- Company (Level 4)
- Competition law
- Corporation (Level 3)
- E-commerce (Level 4)
- Inflation (Level 4)
- Insurance (Level 4)
- Legal person
- Logistics (Level 4)
- Management (Level 3)
- Market (Level 4)
- Marketing (Level 3)
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Monopoly (Level 4)
- Partnership (Level 4)
- Pension (Level 4)
- Perfect competition (Level 4)
- Principal–agent problem
- Productivity (Level 4)
- Profit maximization
- Project management
- Property (Level 3)
- Tax (Level 3)
- Sole proprietorship
- Trade (Level 3)
Sociology (20 articles) edit
Basics edit
- Criminology (Level 4)
- Demography (Level 4)
- Etiquette (Level 4)
- Nature versus nurture (Level 4)
- Peer pressure (Level 4)
- Power (social and political) (Level 4)
- Social change (Level 4)
- Social control (Level 4)
- Social group (Level 4)
- Social reality (Level 4)
- Social research (Level 4)
- Social theory (Level 4)
- Socialization (Level 4)
- Sociological theory (Level 4)
- Structure and agency (Level 4)
- Subculture (Level 4)
- Urban studies
Society (88 articles) edit
Occupation by institution edit
- Labour law
- Hunter-gatherer (Level 4)
- Nomad (Level 4)
- Domestic worker (Level 4)
- Emergency management (Level 4)
- Firefighting (Level 4)
- Orphanage (Level 4)
- Prison (Level 4)
- Social work (Level 4)
- School (Level 3)
- Teacher (Level 4)
- Library (Level 3)
- Agriculture (Level 2)
- Construction (Level 2)
- Energy industry (Level 4)
- Fishing industry (Level 3)
- Forestry (Level 4)
- Fur trade (Level 4)
- Hunting (Level 3)
- Manufacturing (Level 2)
- Mining (Level 3)
- Tourism (Level 3)
- Court (Level 4)
- Judge (Level 4)
- Judiciary (Level 4)
- Jury (Level 4)
- Lawyer (Level 4)
- Police (Level 3)
- Security (Level 4)
- City-state (Level 4)
Titles (20 articles) edit
Groups (12 articles) edit
Ethnology (54 articles) edit
Basics (6 articles) edit
Ethnic groups (48 articles) edit
- Aboriginal Australians (Level 4)
- Adivasi (Level 4)
- Arabs (Level 4)
- Austronesian peoples (Level 4)
- Bantu peoples (Level 4)
- Basques (Level 4)
- Berbers (Level 4)
- Congo Pygmies (Level 4)
- Creole peoples
- Han Chinese (Level 4)
- Hmong people (Level 4)
- Jews (Level 4)
- Kurds (Level 4)
- Maasai people (Level 4)
- Malayali
- Māori people (Level 4)
- Mongols
- Romani people (Level 4)
- Sami people (Level 4)
- San people (Level 4)
- Semitic people
- Slavs (Level 4)
- Tibetan people (Level 4)
- Turkish people
- Tutsi
- Uyghurs (Level 4)
- Yoruba people (Level 4)
- Zulu people (Level 4)
Americas
Conflict edit
Ideology edit
Politics (25 articles) edit
Forms of government (10 articles) edit
Political theory (37 articles) edit
Law (161 articles) edit
For legal history see History of other topics
Basics (29 articles) edit
Subjects (27 articles) edit
Specific documents (12 articles) edit
- Code of Hammurabi (Level 4)
- Corpus Juris Civilis (Level 4)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Level 4)
- Geneva Conventions (Level 4)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Level 4)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Level 4)
- Magna Carta (Level 4)
- Napoleonic Code (Level 4)
- Nuremberg principles (Level 4)
- United States Constitution (Level 4)
- United States Declaration of Independence (Level 4)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Level 4)
Notable legal decisions (17 articles) edit
Great Britain (1 article) edit
United States (16 articles) edit
- Marbury v. Madison
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Miranda v. Arizona
- Loving v. Virginia
- Roe v. Wade
- United States v. Nixon
- Romer v. Evans
- Bush v. Gore
- Lawrence v. Texas
- District of Columbia v. Heller
- Citizens United v. FEC
- Obergefell v. Hodges
War edit
Basics (16 articles) edit
Wars by type (5 articles) edit
- Civil war (Level 4)
- Ethnic conflict (Level 4)
- Invasion (Level 4)
- Rebellion (Level 4)
- Religious war (Level 4)
Warfare by type (10 articles) edit
Military (23 articles) edit
Basics (7 articles) edit
Military branches (8 articles) edit