Word Origin & History. environment c.1600, state of being environed (see environs); sense of nature, conditions in which a person or thing lives first recorded 1827 (used by Carlyle to render Ger. Umgebung); specialized ecology sense first recorded 1956.
Chinampa (Nahuatl: chinÄmitl [tÊiËnaËmitÉ¬]) is a method of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.urther reading [edit]. 1  Blanton, Richard. 2  Calnek, Edward E., Settlement Pattern and Chinampa Agriculture, American Antiquity 1972, 37(104-15). 3  Chapin, Mac. 4  Cline, S.L., Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town. 5  Parsons, Jeffrey R. The Role of Chinampa Agriculture in the Food Supply of Aztec Tenochtitlan, in Cultural ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).The CPC is the sole governing party of China, although it coexists alongside 8 other legal parties that make up the United Front.It was founded in 1921, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao.he party grew quickly, and by 1949 the CPC had driven the Kuomintang (KMT) government from mainland China after a 10-year civil war, thus leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The CPC is currently the world's second largest political party with a membership of 87.79 million as of 2015.