For the 20th century, I now have outlines for the Levantine countries...Israel, Jordan, Syria, Paletinian territories, and Lebanon. Since these have assumed such great importance in the last 70 years or so, I've finally gotten around to a rough sketch.  I'm most of the way through Latin America in the 19th century: It hasn't been as big and obstacle as I feared. However, in order to get to more detail, I need to tet this broken down by periods, and I'm not through the 20th century yet.  

I've made steady progress in connecting areas of sociology including peoples of the world, nations, and communities, and social structure and change to particular nations.  but nothing really liberating or noteworthy has come up yet. I'm getting closer, though.

Institutions in general are now connected to the nations of Western Civilization, which is one marker of progress. For religion in general, I'm making progress through the Latin peoples, which will also be liberating, but I'm not quite there yet.

   Latin American 19th century isn't going to be quite as bad as I anticipated. I made it through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean without major mishap.  Most of what I did today was farily routine and small, except that I cleared a restriction on starting to apply social structure and change. This won't get very far until I get through the higher ranking areas that are blocking it, but it is a nice bit of progress.

   As I was going through Central American history, I came across a note that one of the countries welcomed immigrants, as long as they supported the national government and joined the Roman Catholic Church.  It reminded me of how recent (in historical tierms) true freedom of religion is, in historical terms, and that many peoples of the world today still do not have it.

Modern history has now been applied to all the nations and peoples on the list, at least in a general sort of way. That means, of course, that I can now move on to something else.

The 20th century has been applied to Western Civilization, but there are a whole lot of nations that aren't Western, so it will be a little while yet before those are covered.  The 21st century is so far only applied to Anglic peoples.  I almost dread this part, because I know so little of Latin American history, especially in the last ten years or so, and I don't want to skim througn it too fast.  I've had my head in a bucket so I'm a bit short on what I know of detail of the last five years in this country.  Going back a bit further to the early 2000s, the late 20th century are areas where addition just doesn't go smoothly because of these hang-ups.  The 19th century is another horror show with wars, revolutions, and petty dictators scattered all over Latin America that it's going to take a week or few to even halfway sort out. Going back to classical and medieval history means tackling the Middle East.

Well, there's always the sociology section for consolation, right? Not really. Oriental peoples are up next, and couple of weeks back, I had addition of communities reach a critical point to provoke division of China. I set that aside, since it involved creating a bunch of stub pages for provinces of China, and then grouping them into a few regions as I've done for the United States. Now it's time to go back and finish that job.  Shortly behind it is making sure that nations are connected to other peoples, and it's again, Asiatic nations that are up next.  And then there is setting up cross-connections among nations, which puts me back into Latin America.  Somehow, I'm just not quite up to studying Western Civilization any more this week. The project of adding external links to cities and beginnint to apply social structure and change is going, again, to Asia.

Well, what about the institutions, which have been nagging me for years now? That's right, those are knocking on Asia, and if I get  more specific and look at religion, there's Latin America again.

So that's what's coming up. Where would you like to go?

Sometime progress seems so slow that it feels as if I am trying to push through an overgrown thicket or ball of cotton..one which distributes my various efforts in a hundred different uncooordinated and fairly unproductive ways.   I find myself going back to an old idea of trying to identify the areas where the resistance because I don't know enough is greatest and developing those.

To a considerable extent, this is because I have linked all kinds of historical periods to nations, but not developed much content for those nations. The program of going back and adding some historical content to the pages for nations is still working.

I don't have much progress in Prehistory, Antiquity, or classical and medieval history to report, since these are not all that heavily demanded. 

There is more progress in Modern history in general. This is being applied to African peoples. There also hasn't been much progress in the 16th to 18th centuries. For the 19th century I have more notes on Italy and France, In the 20th century, a review of the Balkan peoples is giving a more concrete picture of what was going on than the vague, fuzzy notions I hade. The late-mid 20th century of Italy and France has also improved a little.

Sociology hasn't been well applied to nations. Working on this has involved slight improvements in re-ordering the topics of sociology, which should help improve the flow of discussion, so far mostly within Western Civilization.  Peoples of the world also haven't been well applied. These are currently being used to develop Latin peoples. For several of the larger nations, I have had a program of connecting nations, and using these to form regions which  can then be sorted to identify regions of closest contact, on the theory that the immediate neigburs are usually (but not always) the largest influences. This has been most successfully done for the Anglic peoples. Not all the nations that are considered part of Western Civilization yet link back to it.

In Anglic peoples, this has gone far enough that I have cross-connected areas. It is no great surprise that these link back most heavily to the United States. What is more surprising is that the US is not itself more closely linked to other nations. considering its size and influence, I had proceeded some ways on this before turning my attention to other areas, but I thought I had gone further.

I finished the project of creating external links to nearly all the nations, but I skipped over cities when I was doing that, so that's also in progress.

I am starting to apply the social institutions to particular nations. This isn't too useful just yet, but it will be when I start getting deeper into details of religion, government, economics, and the like.

I'm making a little more progress in history. Antiquity isn't much improved by having more references to it in Western Civilization, because most developments were going on in Asia.  For classical and medieval times in general, I don't have a lot to report for the Middle East or South Asian peoples. For late medieval periods in particular, I've made progress in the Middle East, with references to the Abbasid Caliphate. Modern history isn't doing so well, but I am starting to bring in more information from African peoples.

Sociology in genral, social structure and change,  institutions, and culture are being applied to nations in much the same that history is. So far, there isn't as much real usable content as I would like, but having the connections in place makes room for it to be added later.