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There are several kinds of govenment activities, which seem to fall into three principal groups. These include administration, such as tax collection, public works, and internal conflict resolution; succession, and state relations.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Institutions Government State relations Administration Succession

There are several kinds of govenment activities, which seem to fall into three principal groups. These include administration, such as tax collection, public works, and internal conflict resolution; succession, and state relations.

State relations

This includes espionage, diplomacy, and warfare

Administration

Succession

This includes methods of inheritance, appointment, seizure, and election.


History Generally speaking, as technology and culture have advanced through history, governments have become more powerful and extended their range of activities.
Prehistory Early prehistory including the Pliocene, early Pleistocene, early mid Pleistocene, late mid Pleistocene, and late Pleistocene can be connected. Middle prehistory including the 5th decamillennium BC, 4th decamillennium BC, 3rd decamillennium BC, and 2nd decamillennium BC can be connected. Late prehistory including the early 8th millennium BC, late 8th millennium BC, early 7th millennium BC, late 7th millennium BC, early 6th millennium BC, and late 6th millennium BC 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 millennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, the early mid 3rd millennium BC, the mid 3rd millennium BC, the late mid 3rd millennium BC, and the 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 10th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be connected. Classical and medieval history State relations, administration, and succession can be considered. 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, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval times including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be considered. Modern history Activities of administration, succession, and state relations can be followed in many cases. 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 considered. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 18th century can be examined. In the 18th century, Industrialization began to affect government activity. The early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late-mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected. In the 19th century, as industrialization progressed, it was reflected in changes in government activity in the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century. In the 20th century, rapid changes in society are reflected in government activity. In the early 20th century, World War I serves as an example. In the early-mid 20th century, other developments became important. In the mid 20th century, World War II and the Cold War, other developments were influential. In the late-mid 20th century, the middle of the Cold War suggests still other developments. I lack sufficient detail on the late 20th century including the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s. I also lack detail on recent and current events of the early 21st century including the early 2000s and 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. The late 2000s, and particular years of 2006 and 2007 down to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd quarter including July, August, and September, and the 4th quarter including October, November, and December to detail government activities. 2008 including the first quarter, second quarter with April, May, and June, and third quarter with July, August, and September will be important. The fourth quarter including October and November can be connected. Events of 2009 can be connected. Events of 2010 including thosese of the first quarter 2010, second quarter 2010, and third quarter 2010 can be considered. The fourth quarter 2010 including events of October 2010 and November 2010 can be connected. December 2010 including events of 2010 week 49, 2010 week 50, 2010 week 51, 2010 week 52, and 2010 week 53 can be connected. The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected. The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 can be connected. 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected. February 2011 including 2011 week 6 and 2011 week 7 can be connected. The second quarter 2011 including April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 can be connected. The future including the near future down to next month, next quarter, and next year, the middle future, and far future is obscure. Sociology Peoples of the world Nations such as Turkey, Congo DR, Iran, Thailand France, UK, Italy, South Korea offer a starting point. Western civilization including Germany offers substantial information about government activity. Anglic peoples including those of the United States are especially important. Latin peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Lusitanic peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia can be connected. Asiatic peoples such as those of Egypt can be examined. South Asian people such as those of Bangladesh can be examined. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Oriental peoples such as those of Japan can be considered. China can be connected. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Vietnam can be connected. Southeast Asian Island peoples such as those of the Philippines can be connected. Indonesia can be connected. African peoples such as those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples such as those of Nigeria can be connected. American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico are less directly connected. Middle American Indian peoples such as those found in the southwestern United States can be connected. North American Indian peoples such as those of the United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. Communities Tokyo, Canton, Seoul, Shanghai, Mexico City, and New York City are also significant. Social structure and change Social change Particular changes and movements such as the agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution, and industrial revolution can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected. Social types including hunting and gathering society can be connected. Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian society can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, dn anthropological structure can be connected. Institutions Religion Particular traditions including asiatic, pagan, and secularist traditions all have influence. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism has connections to government activity. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured varieties may be useful. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief can be connected. Other government Particular governments including local governments, national government, and international governent can be connected. government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected. Economics Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, eommunication, transportation, social and medical services, building and construction, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activity including concumption, distribution and exchange, and production can be connected. Education Particular schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, 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. Govenment activities are closely related to families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families. Culture Behavioral culture including customs, occupation, performing arts, sports and games, and cultural events is significant. Conceptual culture including philosophy, applied science, mathematics, literature, graphic arts, and lanuage can be connected. Material culture including miscellanous artifacts, communication technology, transportation technology, clothing, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology is also important. Anthropology Particular groups can be connected. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and North American geography can be connected. Human ecology including effects of people on the environment, relations with other life, and effects of the environment on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, deaths, migrations, and births can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation can be connected. Personal studies Biography can be connected. Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavior patterns, mind, and behavioral elements can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected. Science is only indirectly applicable to the study of government activities. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, and earth science do not seem to be very useful. Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology may be connected.

History

Generally speaking, as technology and culture have advanced through history, governments have become more powerful and extended their range of activities.

Prehistory

Early prehistory including the Pliocene, early Pleistocene, early mid Pleistocene, late mid Pleistocene, and late Pleistocene can be connected. Middle prehistory including the 5th decamillennium BC, 4th decamillennium BC, 3rd decamillennium BC, and 2nd decamillennium BC can be connected. Late prehistory including the early 8th millennium BC, late 8th millennium BC, early 7th millennium BC, late 7th millennium BC, early 6th millennium BC, and late 6th millennium BC 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 millennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, the early mid 3rd millennium BC, the mid 3rd millennium BC, the late mid 3rd millennium BC, and the 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 10th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be connected.

Classical and medieval history

State relations, administration, and succession can be considered.

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, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval times including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be considered.

Modern history

Activities of administration, succession, and state relations can be followed in many cases.

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 considered. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 18th century can be examined.

In the 18th century, Industrialization began to affect government activity. The early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late-mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected.

In the 19th century, as industrialization progressed, it was reflected in changes in government activity in the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century.

In the 20th century, rapid changes in society are reflected in government activity. In the early 20th century, World War I serves as an example. In the early-mid 20th century, other developments became important. In the mid 20th century, World War II and the Cold War, other developments were influential. In the late-mid 20th century, the middle of the Cold War suggests still other developments. I lack sufficient detail on the late 20th century including the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s.

I also lack detail on recent and current events of the early 21st century including the early 2000s and 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

The late 2000s, and particular years of 2006 and 2007 down to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd quarter including July, August, and September, and the 4th quarter including October, November, and December to detail government activities. 2008 including the first quarter, second quarter with April, May, and June, and third quarter with July, August, and September will be important. The fourth quarter including October and November can be connected. Events of 2009 can be connected.

Events of 2010 including thosese of the first quarter 2010, second quarter 2010, and third quarter 2010 can be considered. The fourth quarter 2010 including events of October 2010 and November 2010 can be connected. December 2010 including events of 2010 week 49, 2010 week 50, 2010 week 51, 2010 week 52, and 2010 week 53 can be connected.

The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected.

The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 can be connected. 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected. February 2011 including 2011 week 6 and 2011 week 7 can be connected.

The second quarter 2011 including April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 can be connected.

The future including the near future down to next month, next quarter, and next year, the middle future, and far future is obscure.

Sociology

Peoples of the world

Nations such as Turkey, Congo DR, Iran, Thailand France, UK, Italy, South Korea offer a starting point.

Western civilization including Germany offers substantial information about government activity. Anglic peoples including those of the United States are especially important. Latin peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Lusitanic peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia can be connected.

Asiatic peoples such as those of Egypt can be examined. South Asian people such as those of Bangladesh can be examined. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Oriental peoples such as those of Japan can be considered. China can be connected. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Vietnam can be connected. Southeast Asian Island peoples such as those of the Philippines can be connected. Indonesia can be connected.

African peoples such as those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples such as those of Nigeria can be connected.

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

Communities

Tokyo, Canton, Seoul, Shanghai, Mexico City, and New York City are also significant.

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes and movements such as the agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution, and industrial revolution can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected.

Social types including hunting and gathering society can be connected. Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian society can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected.

Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, dn anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Particular traditions including asiatic, pagan, and secularist traditions all have influence. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism has connections to government activity. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured varieties may be useful. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief can be connected.

Other government

Particular governments including local governments, national government, and international governent can be connected. government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, eommunication, transportation, social and medical services, building and construction, manufacturing and extraction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activity including concumption, distribution and exchange, and production can be connected.

Education

Particular schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, 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.

Govenment activities are closely related to families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families.

Culture

Behavioral culture including customs, occupation, performing arts, sports and games, and cultural events is significant. Conceptual culture including philosophy, applied science, mathematics, literature, graphic arts, and lanuage can be connected. Material culture including miscellanous artifacts, communication technology, transportation technology, clothing, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology is also important.

Anthropology

Particular groups can be connected. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and North American geography can be connected. Human ecology including effects of people on the environment, relations with other life, and effects of the environment on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, deaths, migrations, and births can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation can be connected.

Personal studies

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

Science is only indirectly applicable to the study of government activities. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, and earth science do not seem to be very useful. Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology may be connected.