Question

The human desire to control an area or people is called __________.

Answer 1

The desire of human to take control of a specific area or certain group of people is called the territoriality. This is associated with how spaces should be used, its ownership, and occupancy, and possessions. This is also associated with the wanting to lead the group of people living in a certain populace.

Answer 2

The human desire to control an area or people is called territoriality. What the term means is a kind of nonverbal communication, that refers to how people use space to communicate ownership or occupancy of areas and possessions. If we look at personal space as a bubble that has a person in the centre, that area around the person is an area which the person does not wish to be invaded.