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The earth on which human beings live
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World generalized Speaking up, it means whole All everything Generally speaking, the world refers to the survival of human beings earth The world is also called world The world This shore in this world creation on earth Etc.
The world can also be explained by perceivable and imperceptible objective existence Sum of and used to describe objective existence The sum of the concepts and their interrelationships, the objective existence does not exist with the will of people or other things. The world consists of conceptual world and Material world Composition, the conceptual world contains the sum of all life's cognition of the objective world and the things that exist to record cognition.
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1. World name world The world This shore in this world creation on earth On many occasions Global Huanqiu (Universal) world (Huanyu) international As a pronoun, the word "etc." usually refers to the earth where human beings live today, which is interpreted in some ways more generalized The world of universe
2. The surface of the earth can be described by a world map human beings The world of prediction or design, see Future World and virtual world
3. The word "world" in Chinese comes from the buddhist scripture , is not a modern new term, and refers to the world time , boundary space Tracing back to its source is from Buddhism.
4. The word "world" commonly used today refers specifically to earth for.
5. The world is a form formed in human nature: human cognition of the world is their own universe Of annotation Humans take the world as a certain format and divide the universe into different regions - ranges. Such as: mineral world, plant world, animal world, multi world, imaginary world and real world. Different world means different regions of activity. All kinds of different forms of matter in the universe follow certain rules in their activities and interact in their own world to complete the overall operation of the universe.
space-time And whether there is a division is determined for the world. The world is right Natural society and human society A description of the sum of all things.
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People's description of the world is a description of the scope of all things that exist in the environment in natural form. The world has a beginning, which can be described by time; If the world has scope, it can be used space To describe the conditions. In the concept of time and space of life, human beings have history , Yes Culture , Yes Sociology , Yes nation , Yes country There is a conceptual distinction between everything in the world.
The concept of the world has no existence or non existence. The world form is different due to different people's ideology, and different world forms are people's respective world views.
All things in the world can be used, whether they exist in the form of concepts or existing concepts Yes No It reflects different values and forms a valuable world due to the cognitive knowledge at different stages. Everything in the world has value: such as natural things that exist naturally, social things that exist socially, past things that exist historically, future things created by knowledge, things generated by culture, cultural differences between countries and nations, biological evolution, human civilization, social development, scientific and technological progress, etc.
The world is the result of nature, natural It is the founder of the world, and the world is the generalization of all natural activities. The world is materialistic and does not exist because of the existence of vitality. On the contrary, the existence of life must be produced in the material world.
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From ancient times to modern times, the world is called, and the upper and lower sides are called the world ”The world is all time and space The general term of "," usually refers to the earth where humans live. The surface of the earth can be described by a map of the world. To the 16th century Copernicus establish Heliocentric theory Later, it was generally recognized that the earth revolves around the sun planet One, including the earth planets It forms a planetary system revolving around the sun - the main members of the solar system. The world, other names include heaven and earth, heaven and earth, the world, all things, the world, etc., usually refers to the earth where people are living at present. The surface of the earth can be described by a world map.
In Chinese, the word "world" is derived from Buddhist scriptures, not from modern terms, but from Buddhism. The word "world" refers to time and "boundary" refers to space, which covers the principle that time and space cannot be separated. This just fits Einstein Of relativity In ancient China, the word "world" was often used to describe the world, and there was no world. Gein world is a Buddhist term, which is widely used today, but we should understand the origin of this term. according to Shurangama Sutra In the fourth volume, the world is the meaning of migration; The boundary refers to the direction. That is to say, in time, there is the migration of the past and the future, and in space, there are positioning places in the east, west, north and south, up and down. The word "world" in Buddhism refers not only to the earth but to the whole universe. Today, the commonly used word "world" refers specifically to the earth. For the purpose of diversified integration and large coverage elaborate The broader definition refers to the whole universe.
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Sanskrit loka-dha^tu, Pali Same as. The transliteration Lu Jia Tuo Guan means a place that can be destroyed. It is also called Jie. according to Shurangama Sutra In the fourth volume, the world is the meaning of migration; The boundary refers to the direction. That is to say, in time, there is the migration of the past and the future, and in space, there are positioning places in the southeast, northwest, top and bottom. It also refers to the places where all living beings live, such as mountains, rivers land Etc. From the above, we can see that the world originally refers to the world of three worlds; however mahayana Also refers to lotus Huazang World Huayan Sect The state of Buddha) Amitabha Pure Land And so on, including the absolute world and the world of inaction beyond the relative world.
Ancient India established cosmology according to the theory of Mount Sumiya, that is Xumi Mountain As the center, plus the nine mountains and eight seas, four continents (four worlds), and the sun and the moon around it, it is called one world. One thousand people in one world, one small world; Combine thousands of small and thousands of worlds into one middle and thousands of worlds; A thousand middle and thousand worlds are combined into one big thousand world (big thousand world, big thousand world). A big world includes three kinds of "thousand worlds": small, medium and large, so the big world is also called "three thousand big worlds"( 3000 World )。 The universe is composed of countless 3000 worlds, which shows that the world is boundless.
1. The scope of enlightenment (i.e Buddhist soil ), or one world, or one or three thousand world, or the wider world‘ The word "world" is synonymous with "world", including Affective world In the world However, it is commonly used to refer to the world (mountains and rivers earth )For.
In addition, sentient beings living in the world can be divided into hell, hungry ghost, animal, asura, human, heaven, etc Six Routes Difference. Among them, the world where the first five live is called the realms of desire In the way of heaven, the world where Colored Heaven lives is called the material world The world where the colorless sky lives is called the colorless world. However, in the Mahayana Sutras, there are Buddhas pure land The saying that exists outside the above three realms. as Maha Stop Watching Uploaded in Volume 5, set up separately from Lane 6 personal disciple of Buddha pratyekabuddha , Bodhisattva Buddhism The four sages, etc the ten states of living beings Each of the ten realms has its own land. Another example is that Volume 3 of the Huayan Five Religious Chapters lists the land sea and the world sea as the basis for the ten Buddha realm according to the Huayan Sutra. Namely: ① Land Sea The dwelling of the Ten Buddhas in themselves is an indescribable proof of harmony and freedom. ② World Sea: the place where the ten bodies of Shana are absorbed can also be divided into three categories: the solemn world sea of Lianhua Tibetan, the ten heavy world sea, and the immeasurable miscellaneous world sea.

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Topographical arrangement
Infrared world aerial photography: location map of seven continents;
The geographical regions of the world (Earth) are divided into Seven continents Four oceans
Seven continents
Four oceans

global problems

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population
The total population of the world is the number of people living on the earth at a specific time. according to the United Nations Announcing that the world population It will reach 8 billion on November 15, 2022. [1] world population In the 15th century Black Death The fastest growing world after population growth rate (higher than 1.8%) appeared in the 1950s. According to the world population forecast, the world population will continue to grow until 2050
global warming
global warming It refers to the phenomenon that the temperature of the earth's atmosphere and ocean rises over a period of time, mainly referring to the temperature rise caused by human factors. It is believed worldwide that the main reason is probably due to greenhouse gases( carbon dioxide )Excessive emissions. Over the past 100 years, the global average temperature has experienced four fluctuations: cold → warm → cold → warm, and the overall trend is temperature rise. Since the 1980s, the global temperature has risen significantly.
water pollution
Water body Due to the intervention of some substance Chemistry Physics Biology or radioactivity And other characteristics, thus affecting the effective use of water, endangering human health or destroying ecological environment , causing water quality deterioration. Water pollution is mainly caused by various exogenous substances discharged by human beings (including those that were not originally found in nature), which exceed the water body itself after entering the water body Self purification (that is, rivers, lakes and seas can eliminate exogenous substances through various physical, chemical and biological methods) water pollution Has.

Modern World

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For global human beings, the major events in the world in the 20th century include:
  • Two destructive world wars in 1914 and 1939;
  • The Great Depression of 1930;
  • The end of the huge colonial system;
  • With the rapid development of science and technology, mankind has finally set foot on Moon
  • happen to NATO and Warsaw Treaty The cold war between countries;
  • North America Europe and Japan A substantial improvement in living standards;
  • Pay more attention to environmental issues, including the loss of forests, the shortage of energy and water, the decline of biodiversity and air pollution;
  • AIDS The popularity of.
In addition, the global population also shows explosive growth: from 1820 From 1 billion to 2 billion in 1927, 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1988, 6 billion in 2000, and 7 billion in 2011.
In the 21st century, science and technology are still showing an exponential growth trend, which not only brings hope to mankind, such as the progress of medicine, but also brings fear, such as the emergence of more and more deadly weapons in war. Topics of concern include global warming Influenza renewable energy Etc.

Famous sayings

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To succeed in this world, we must persevere in the end: we cannot let go until we die Voltaire
The hardships of life cannot overwhelm me. The joy in my heart is not my own. I put it into music to make the whole world feel happy. - Mozart
Fractal geometry not only shows the beauty of mathematics, but also reveals the essence of the world, and also changes the way people understand the mysteries of nature; It can be said that fractal geometry is the geometry that truly describes nature, and its research has greatly expanded the cognitive domain of human beings Zhou Haizhong
If all human energy is concentrated in one head, and the world is concentrated in one person's brain, that situation, if it continues, will be the end of civilization Hugo
Opportunism may win for a while, but it is difficult to gain a foothold in the world-- Lu Xun

Countries and regions

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There are 199 countries and regions in the world, including: