2008 - 1st quarter

This includes events of the first quarter of 2008.

   

January

Events of January 2008 can be considered

February

Events of February 2008 can be considered

March

In China, demonstrations by Tibetan separatists turned violent.


Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology can be connected. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography can be examined. Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be connected.

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Culture

Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technology, and other artifacts can be connected. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy can be connected. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered.

Institutions

Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be connected. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be connected. Economics including economic organization, industries, and economic systems are significant. Government including law, government structure, government activity, and particular governments can be connected. Religion including religious beliefs, practice, and organization can be connected. Particular religious traditions including Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be considered.

Sociology

Social structure and change

Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be connected. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be connected. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular changes can be considered.

Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City can be connected.

Peoples including nations such as Russia, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, and France can be considered. Western civilization including Brazil is important. Anglic peoples including the United States can be connected. Asiatic peoples including Bangladesh can be considered. Among South Asian peoples, events of India and Pakistan will be important. Among Oriental peoples, events of China are important. Southeast Asian peoples including Indonesia can be connected. African peoples, and American Indian peoples such as are found in the United States can be considered.

Other History

This is weakly connected to other periods of history through classical and medieval times. It is connected to modern history through the 19th century. The 20th century through the late 20th century is indirectly connected. This is rather indirectly connected to the early 2000s. Within the late 2000s, it is weakly connected to most of 2007, but immediately preceded by the fourth quarter.

It is followed by the second quarter of 2008. It is somewhat connected to the future.


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Created 7 Mar 2008, Updated 31 Oct 2008