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Causes of poverty
Causes of poverty are the individual and structural mechanisms that produce low income and deprivation, from schooling returns and health shocks to welfare-state institutions and poverty traps.
Causes of sexual violence
Causes of sexual violence: interacting individual, relationship, community, and societal risk factors, with gender inequality as the WHO-identified root cause; alcohol, childhood abuse, hostile norms, and weak sanctions are leading contributors.
Causes of the French Revolution
Causes of the French Revolution: fiscal insolvency and unequal taxation (25-30% of income), climate shocks of 1783-1788, harvest failure, social tension, the American example, and how Marxist, revisionist, and recent interpretations frame them.
Causes of the Great Depression
The causes of the Great Depression lay in monetary contraction, banking panics, and the interwar gold standard, which collapsed US output nearly 30 percent by 1933.
Causes of the Great Recession
The causes of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 include a housing bubble, toxic mortgages, heavy leverage, weak regulation, and unregulated derivatives that spread losses globally.
Causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857: accumulated sepoy, princely, landholder, and peasant grievances against East India Company rule, triggered by Enfield cartridge rumors, the 1856 Awadh annexation, and land revenue policies.
Causes of the vote in favour of Brexit
Causes of the 51.9% Leave vote in the 23 June 2016 UK EU membership referendum: education and age divides, immigration attitudes, English identity, austerity and economic grievance, low political trust, and disputed Russian interference.
Causes of World War I
Causes of World War I: long-term tensions (alliances, imperialism, nationalism, German Weltpolitik), the July Crisis after Franz Ferdinand's assassination, and the century-long war guilt debate from Fischer to Clark.
Causes of World War II
Causes of World War II: Versailles settlement, Great Depression, German, Italian, and Japanese expansion, League of Nations failures, and appeasement, culminating in Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.
Causeway Classic
Causeway Classic: annual UC Davis Aggies vs Sacramento State Hornets football rivalry, first played 1954, named in 1983 for the Yolo Causeway; UC Davis leads the series and won the 2025 game 31-27.
Causeway Media Partners
Causeway Media Partners is a growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Wyc Grousbeck, Bob Higgins, and Mark Wan, investing in sports media, sports technology, and fitness from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cavalier
Cavalier: a Royalist supporter of Charles I in the English Civil War (1642–51), counterpart to the Roundhead. From Italian cavaliere, horseman; originally a Parliamentarian insult, adopted as a badge of pride, later an adjective meaning disdainful.
Cavalier Attendant-in-ordinary
The Cavalier Attendant-in-ordinary (散骑常侍) was a Chinese court office whose holders attended the emperor, offered remonstrance, and reviewed the Secretariat's memorials in Wei and Jin times.
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson is an American Democratic politician who has served as Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, since late 2021, becoming the city's first elected Black mayor in 2022.
Cavalry
Cavalry: soldiers who fight mounted, historically on horses, performing shock action, reconnaissance, screening, and pursuit. Evolved from chariots through cataphracts to mechanized and armored reconnaissance forces; the US Cavalry Branch merged into armor in 1950.
Cavalry Ventures
Cavalry Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016, which invests in European software companies at pre-seed and seed stage with three funds, including a €100 million third fund launched in 2022.
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, or Ibrahimi Mosque massacre: on 25 February 1994 Baruch Goldstein, an American-born Israeli Kach settler, shot 29 Muslim worshippers dead in Hebron before being beaten to death.
Caveat emptor
Caveat emptor, Latin for "let the buyer beware", is the common law doctrine placing inspection risk on buyers; its counterpart caveat venditor places it on sellers, and modern warranty and consumer law has heavily qualified the old maxim.
Cavu Venture Partners
CAVU Venture Partners, now CAVU Consumer Partners, LLC, is a New York venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests in high-growth consumer brands like Vital Proteins and Bai.
Caxton Associates
Caxton Associates is a global macro hedge fund manager founded by Bruce Kovner in 1983 and led since 2011 by Andrew Law, trading currencies, commodities, and derivatives from London.
CAYE Kaye Technology
CAYE (咖爷科技) is a Chinese startup founded in 2022 and based in Suzhou that makes commercial fully automatic coffee machines, raising a record Series B in 2026.
Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva (1926-2014), 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat and Guinness-record most titled person, with disputed counts of 40-50 titles, grandee of Spain 14-20 times, head of the House of Alba.
Cayman Islands dollar
The Cayman Islands dollar (KYD) is the currency of the Cayman Islands, pegged at CI$1 = US$1.20 since 1974 and issued by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority is the Cayman Islands' integrated regulator of financial services, supervising banks, investment funds, and insurers and issuing the Cayman Islands dollar.
Cayor
Cayor (Wolof: Kajoor; also written Kayor) was a precolonial Wolof kingdom on the Atlantic coast of what is now Senegal, ruled by a king titled Damel.
Cayuga people
Cayuga people (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ', People of the Great Swamp), one of five original Haudenosaunee nations of the Finger Lakes, New York; displaced by the 1779 Sullivan-Clinton campaign, party to the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, with communities in New York, Ontario, and Oklahoma.
Cayuse War
The Cayuse War (1847–1850) was an armed conflict between the Cayuse people and Oregon's settler government, triggered by the killing of missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman in 1847.
CAZ GP Ownership Class E Fund, L.P.
CAZ GP Ownership Class E Fund, L.P. is a Delaware private equity fund based in Houston, Texas, executing the GP-stakes strategy of CAZ Investments, a firm founded in 2001.
CAZ GP Ownership Funds
The CAZ GP Ownership Funds are affiliated private-placement funds managed by CAZ Investments, a Houston firm founded by Christopher Zook in 2001, that buy minority stakes in alternative asset managers.
CazéTV
CazéTV, also written CazeTV, is a free Brazilian sports streaming channel on YouTube created by Casimiro Miguel with LiveMode; it streamed all 104 matches of the 2026 World Cup free, reaching 118.7 million unique accounts, and holds IOC Olympic rights through 2028.