Early 2000s


The early 2000s are still too recent for significant historical perspective. For now, current events are and will be included in this section. Events here are given year by year, and only a few are included.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience History Modern History 20th Century Early 21st Century Year 2001 Year 2002 Year 2003 Year 2004 Year 2005

The early 2000s are still too recent for significant historical perspective. For now, current events are and will be included in this section. Events here are given year by year, and only a few are included.

2001

Following a terrorist attack in the US sponsored by a militant group called al-Qaeda, the US invaded Afghanistan.

2002

The United States reorganized its Department of Homeland Security. Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the Communist Party.

2003

In the 2nd quarter, the filling of the reservoir behind the controversial Three Gorges dam in China began. US forces occupied Baghdad. The US Supreme court ruled that sodomy laws were unconstitutional. In the 3rd quarter, a European Constitution was proposed. In the 4th quarter, China launched its first manned space misson, the Massachussets Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting same sex marriage were unconstitutional, and Saddam Hussein was captured.

2004

In the 1st quarter, notable events included the French National Assembly banning the wearing of religious symbols or clothing in schools, terrorist bombings in Madrid, Spain. In the 2nd quarter, Same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachussets in the US, the European Union added ten members, the US transferred power to an intering government in Iraq, and the Congress party won an unexpected victory in India. In the 3rd quarter, John Kerry was nominated as Democratic candidate for US Preseident, in opposition to incumbent George Bush. Mexico and Japan signed a free trade agreement. Chechen terrorists took hostages at a school in a town named Beslan, which was stormed by Russian security forces, killing most of the terrorists and many hostages. In the 4th quarter, George Bush was reelected President of the United States, European leaders sign the Treaty of Rome, proposing a European Constitution and Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian authority died. A massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in nations surrounding the Indian Ocean.

2005

In the 1st quarter, US President George Bush began his second term of office, Iraq held elections for a new provisional Parliament, and Mahmoud Abbas was elected President of the Palestinian authority. In the 2nd quarter, Pope John Paul II died and was succeeded by Pope Benedict XVI. French and Dutch voters rejected the proposed European Constitution. In the 3rd quarter, bombings in London by an Islamic-terrorist-related group took place. The IRA called an end to its armed campaign in Northern Ireland; Huricane Katrina hit the southern US, and a new Chief Justice of the US Supreme court was sworn in. In the 4th quarter, there was civil unrest in France. Parliamentary elections for a new parliament in Iraq were held, and a new President was elected in Poland. Terrorist bombings in Bali, Indonesia gained world attention.


Other History Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory can be connected. Antiquity The 5th millennium BC including the early 5th millennium BC, early mid 5th millennium BC, mid 5th millennium BC, late mid 5th millennium BC, and late 5th millennium BC can be connected. The 4th millennium BC including the early 4th millennium BC, early mid 4th millennium BC, mid 4th millennium BC, late mid 4th millennium BC, and late 4th milennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, early mid 3rd millennium BC, mid 3rd millennium BC, late mid 3rd millennium BC, and late 3rd millennium BC can be connected. The 2nd millennium BC including the early 2nd millennium BC, early mid 2nd millennium BC, mid 2nd millennium BC, late mid 2nd millennium BC, and late 2nd millennium BC can be connected. The early 1st millennium BC including the 11th century BC, 12th century BC, 13th century BC, 14th century BC, and 15th century BC can be connected.	Links to other sites: Wikipedia - 2000s 2000 - 2006 World History InfoPlease.com 21st Century (Timelines) Media History Timelines 2000s
Classical and medieval History Early classical times including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical times including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected. Early medieval times including the 6th century, 8th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval history including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be connected. Modern history The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected. The 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, and late 19th century can be connected. Other 20th century Events of the 20th century including the early 20th century, early mid 20th century, mid 20th century, and late mid 20th century up to the late 20th century are also useful. Developments are continued from the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and most immediately the late 1990s including 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Other Early 21st century This is followed by the Late 2000s, including 2006 and the 1st, 2nd 3rd, and 4th quarter, and 2007, 1st quarter and 2nd quarter, including April and May. 2008, 2009, and 2010 can be connected. The late 2000s including 2011 can be connected. Some developments can be projected into the future. The near future including next month, the next quarter, and next year is more accessible than the middle future or far future. Sociology Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change will be critical to the analysis of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2003, and 2005. Institutions Religion, government, economics, education, and families will be important to the analysis of events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Religion Religion can be applied to 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Particular traditions can be considered. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism is important. Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism are also significant. Religous organization, practice, and beliefs are important. Government Government can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2005. Particular governments including local, national, and international such as traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts will be important. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations is important. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government can be connected. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be considered. Economics Economics can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and system behavior are important. Industries and particular companies including commercial and financial industries, Communications, transportation, social and medical, building and construction, extraction and manufacturing, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activity including production, consumption, and distribution and exchange can be connected. Education Particular schools and higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, studends, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. Families Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected. Culture Behavoral culture, conceptual culture, and material culture can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Behavioral culture Cultural events including miscellaneous events, holidays, gatherings, and disasters will also be useful. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building occupations, and food-related occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, dress and adornment customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected. Conceptual culture Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetics, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including literary works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, graphic arts, and linguistics can be connected. Material culture Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, toys, and medicines can be connected. Communications technology including written communications, electronic communications, and graphic communication can be considered. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, and land transportation can be connected. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial technology including advanced tecnology, utilites, machinery, weaponry, chemical technology, fuels, and tools can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups, human geography, human ecology, physical anthropology, demograpny, and social foundations can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Particular groups Particular groups of this period include: al-Qaeda American Academy of Arts and Sciences Royal Society Victorian Society World History Association Human geography European geography including Balkan, Italian, Iberian, Central European, Eastern europen, Northwest European, Island European, and Scandinavian geography can be connected. Asian geography including Southwest Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, East Asian, Central Asian, and North Asian geography can be connected. African geography including North African geography, East African geography, West African geography, North Central African geography, South Central African geography, and Southern African geography can be connected. North American geography including Northern North American geography, Middle North American geography, and Southern North American geography can be connected. South American geography can be connected. Oceanic geography can be connected. Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of people on the environment can be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be connected. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be considered. Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, group types, and group behavior can be connected. Personal studies Biography, psychology, and the human body can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Biographies will be included as the site develops. Gorbachev Bush, George W. Blair, Tony Bush, George H.W. Carter, Jimmy Jacques Chirac Bill Clinton Gerald R. Ford Hu Jintao. Helmut Kohl John Major Vladimir Putin Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher Atal Bihari Vajpayee Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmenta psychology, behavior patterns, mind, and behavioral elements can be considered. The human body including form and appearance, the human life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected. Science Science may be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2005. Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity theory, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.

Other History

Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory can be connected.

Antiquity

The 5th millennium BC including the early 5th millennium BC, early mid 5th millennium BC, mid 5th millennium BC, late mid 5th millennium BC, and late 5th millennium BC can be connected. The 4th millennium BC including the early 4th millennium BC, early mid 4th millennium BC, mid 4th millennium BC, late mid 4th millennium BC, and late 4th milennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, early mid 3rd millennium BC, mid 3rd millennium BC, late mid 3rd millennium BC, and late 3rd millennium BC can be connected. The 2nd millennium BC including the early 2nd millennium BC, early mid 2nd millennium BC, mid 2nd millennium BC, late mid 2nd millennium BC, and late 2nd millennium BC can be connected. The early 1st millennium BC including the 11th century BC, 12th century BC, 13th century BC, 14th century BC, and 15th century BC can be connected.

Links to other sites:

Wikipedia - 2000s
2000 - 2006 World History InfoPlease.com
21st Century (Timelines)
Media History Timelines 2000s

Classical and medieval History

Early classical times including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical times including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected. Early medieval times including the 6th century, 8th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval history including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be connected.

Modern history

The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected. The 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, and late 19th century can be connected.

Other 20th century

Events of the 20th century including the early 20th century, early mid 20th century, mid 20th century, and late mid 20th century up to the late 20th century are also useful. Developments are continued from the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and most immediately the late 1990s including 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.

Other Early 21st century

This is followed by the Late 2000s, including 2006 and the 1st, 2nd 3rd, and 4th quarter, and 2007, 1st quarter and 2nd quarter, including April and May. 2008, 2009, and 2010 can be connected. The late 2000s including 2011 can be connected.

Some developments can be projected into the future. The near future including next month, the next quarter, and next year is more accessible than the middle future or far future.

Sociology

Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change will be critical to the analysis of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2003, and 2005.

Institutions

Religion, government, economics, education, and families will be important to the analysis of events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005

Religion

Religion can be applied to 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Particular traditions can be considered. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism is important. Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism are also significant. Religous organization, practice, and beliefs are important.

Government

Government can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2005.

Particular governments including local, national, and international such as traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts will be important. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations is important. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government can be connected. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be considered.

Economics

Economics can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and system behavior are important. Industries and particular companies including commercial and financial industries, Communications, transportation, social and medical, building and construction, extraction and manufacturing, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activity including production, consumption, and distribution and exchange can be connected.

Education

Particular schools and higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, studends, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavoral culture, conceptual culture, and material culture can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including miscellaneous events, holidays, gatherings, and disasters will also be useful. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupations, transportation occupations, building occupations, and food-related occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, dress and adornment customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected.

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetics, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including literary works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, graphic arts, and linguistics can be connected.

Material culture

Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, toys, and medicines can be connected. Communications technology including written communications, electronic communications, and graphic communication can be considered. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, and land transportation can be connected. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial technology including advanced tecnology, utilites, machinery, weaponry, chemical technology, fuels, and tools can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups, human geography, human ecology, physical anthropology, demograpny, and social foundations can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Particular groups

Particular groups of this period include:

Human geography

European geography including Balkan, Italian, Iberian, Central European, Eastern europen, Northwest European, Island European, and Scandinavian geography can be connected. Asian geography including Southwest Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, East Asian, Central Asian, and North Asian geography can be connected. African geography including North African geography, East African geography, West African geography, North Central African geography, South Central African geography, and Southern African geography can be connected. North American geography including Northern North American geography, Middle North American geography, and Southern North American geography can be connected. South American geography can be connected. Oceanic geography can be connected.

Human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of people on the environment can be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be connected. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be considered. Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, group types, and group behavior can be connected.

Personal studies

Biography, psychology, and the human body can be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Biographies will be included as the site develops.

Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmenta psychology, behavior patterns, mind, and behavioral elements can be considered. The human body including form and appearance, the human life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected.

Science

Science may be applied to events of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2005.

Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity theory, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.

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