Politics, Law & Government
The world today is divided territorially into more than 190 countries, each of which possesses a national government that claims to exercise sovereignty and seeks to compel obedience to its will by its citizens. Governments can be classified in any number of ways. For example, they might be classified by the number of rulers, thus distinguishing government by one (as in a monarchy or a tyranny) from government by the few (in an aristocracy or oligarchy) and from government by the many (as in a democracy). Governments can also be classified by mode of succession; for example, ascension to governmental leadership may follow the rules of hereditary succession, or it may be determined through elections or by force. Governments also vary in terms of the laws and rules of conduct that each political entity follows.
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Hanseatic League
German trading organization

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Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
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William George Fargo
American businessman
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George M. Pullman
American industrialist and inventor

Economic system, any of the ways in which humankind has arranged for its material provisioning. One would think that there would be a great variety of such systems, corresponding to the many cultural arrangements that have characterized human society.
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Soviet Union
historical state, Eurasia

International relations, the study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies, political parties, and interest groups). It is related to a number of other academic disciplines, including political science, geography, history, economics, law, sociology, psychology, and philosophy.
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World Bank
international organization
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Canon law
religion
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Land reform
agricultural economics
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Army of Tennessee
Confederate army during American Civil War
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The United States Army
United States military
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Wehrmacht
armed forces of the Third Reich

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Woodrow Wilson
president of United States
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Peter I
emperor of Russia
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Gustavus Adolphus
king of Sweden