2008 - fourth quarter


This includes events of the fourth quarter 2008.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience History Modern History 20th Century Early 21st Century Late 2000s 2008 October November December

This includes events of the fourth quarter 2008.

October
November
December

October

The global financial crisis continued and deepened, and various indicators showed the US entering into an economic recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average stock marked index showed some significant drops. India successfully launched a lunar research spacecraft.

November

Barak Obama was elected President of the United States.

December

Events of this month are still in the future


Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology can be connected. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography can be connected.	Links to other sites
Anthropology Social foundations including social presentation, social interactions, social control, social group types, and social group behavior can be connected. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion 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. Human geography including European geogrpahy, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Particular groups can be connected. Culture Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technology, and other artifact can be connected. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy can be connected. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, and cultural events can be connected. Institutions Family 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 activity, industries, and economic systems can be connected. Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be considered. Government can be connected. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be considered. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government can be considered. Government activity including succession, administration, and state relations can be considered. Particular governments including local government, national government, and international government can be connected. Religion including religious belief, religious practice, and religious organization can be connected. Religious traditions including Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, African religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be connected. Sociology Social structure and change Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure will be important. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be considered. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular social changes can be connected. Communities such as Mexico City, Delhi, Bombay, New York City, Sao Paulo, and Manila can be connected. Peoples Nations include Germany, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, and France. Western Civilization includes Mexico. Anglic peoples including the United States can be connected. Latin peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia can be connected. Asiatic peoples can be examined. Those of the Vietnam can be connected. Asiatic cities such as Seoul can be considered. Among South Asian peoples, those of India can be connected. Those of Pakistan can be connected. Those of Bangladesh can be connected. Those of Oriental peoples such as China and Japan can be considered. Oriental cities such as Tokyo can be considered. Among Southeast Asian peoples, those of Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected. African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected. American Indian peoples such as those found in Mexico are less directly significant. South American Indian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. North American peoples such as those found in the United States can also be connected. Other history This is only weakly connected to earlier history through classical and medieval times. It is also weakly connected to moden history through the 19th century. It is indirectly connected to the 20th century through the late 20th century. It is somewhat connected to the early 2000s. It is preceded by 2007. Within 2008, it is directly preceded by the third quarter. It is also connected to the future, including the near future with next month including future events of November and December 2008, next quarter including January 2009, February 2009, and March 2008, and next year and to the middle future, and far future.

Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology can be connected. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography can be connected.

Links to other sites

Anthropology

Social foundations including social presentation, social interactions, social control, social group types, and social group behavior can be connected. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion 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. Human geography including European geogrpahy, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Particular groups can be connected.

Culture

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

Institutions

Family 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 activity, industries, and economic systems can be connected. Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be considered. Government can be connected. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be considered. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government can be considered. Government activity including succession, administration, and state relations can be considered. Particular governments including local government, national government, and international government can be connected. Religion including religious belief, religious practice, and religious organization can be connected. Religious traditions including Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, African religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be connected.

Sociology

Social structure and change

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

Communities such as Mexico City, Delhi, Bombay, New York City, Sao Paulo, and Manila can be connected.

Peoples

Nations include Germany, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, and France.

Western Civilization includes Mexico. Anglic peoples including the United States can be connected. Latin peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia can be connected.

Asiatic peoples can be examined. Those of the Vietnam can be connected. Asiatic cities such as Seoul can be considered. Among South Asian peoples, those of India can be connected. Those of Pakistan can be connected. Those of Bangladesh can be connected. Those of Oriental peoples such as China and Japan can be considered. Oriental cities such as Tokyo can be considered. Among Southeast Asian peoples, those of Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected.

African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected.

American Indian peoples such as those found in Mexico are less directly significant. South American Indian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. North American peoples such as those found in the United States can also be connected.

Other history

This is only weakly connected to earlier history through classical and medieval times. It is also weakly connected to moden history through the 19th century. It is indirectly connected to the 20th century through the late 20th century. It is somewhat connected to the early 2000s. It is preceded by 2007. Within 2008, it is directly preceded by the third quarter.

It is also connected to the future, including the near future with next month including future events of November and December 2008, next quarter including January 2009, February 2009, and March 2008, and next year and to the middle future, and far future.