Balkans and Balkanisation: Western Perceptions of the Balkans in
... the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolutions in Czechoslovakia and other countries in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc had instilled a sense of hope that Europe would become ‘whole and free’, and that the end of the European wars heralded a millennia of peace and democracy. ...
... the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolutions in Czechoslovakia and other countries in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc had instilled a sense of hope that Europe would become ‘whole and free’, and that the end of the European wars heralded a millennia of peace and democracy. ...
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... from the beginning of their relationship with these natives, Westerners regarded them as lessdeveloped peoples who would one day leave the “state of nature” and enter society. To these Europeans, primitive societies simply provided a great case study of what exactly Hobbes was talking about in his L ...
... from the beginning of their relationship with these natives, Westerners regarded them as lessdeveloped peoples who would one day leave the “state of nature” and enter society. To these Europeans, primitive societies simply provided a great case study of what exactly Hobbes was talking about in his L ...
West and NonWest - Montclair State University
... numerically superior Persian troops for several days – The heroism and self-sacrifice of the Spartans is celebrated today even though they lost the battle – Where were the Spartan positions? To the WEST of the Persians – Greece also to the west of Persia (Iran) – General view is that Greeks survived ...
... numerically superior Persian troops for several days – The heroism and self-sacrifice of the Spartans is celebrated today even though they lost the battle – Where were the Spartan positions? To the WEST of the Persians – Greece also to the west of Persia (Iran) – General view is that Greeks survived ...
Eastern Europe - Supplementary Notes
... • Political entity only date back to the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended WW I. • Carved up the former Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires into several of the states existing in the region today. • Formerly independent Serbia and Montenegro were joined with Slovenia, Croatia, part of Mace ...
... • Political entity only date back to the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended WW I. • Carved up the former Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires into several of the states existing in the region today. • Formerly independent Serbia and Montenegro were joined with Slovenia, Croatia, part of Mace ...
Prelude to the Modern World
... Between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries the Middle Ages witnessed the making of scholasticism, the revival of Roman law and the founding of the universities. Scholasticism, the method of the schoolmen, was the first systemized approach to knowledge since the age of Aristotle, to whom it ow ...
... Between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries the Middle Ages witnessed the making of scholasticism, the revival of Roman law and the founding of the universities. Scholasticism, the method of the schoolmen, was the first systemized approach to knowledge since the age of Aristotle, to whom it ow ...
What We Mean by the West - Foreign Policy Research Institute
... Italy into the warring camps of the pro-papal Guelfs and pro-imperial Ghibellenes, purporting to incarnate the civic humanism of the ancients. What made the conflicts of Renaissance Italy of surpassing importance to Europe and the world was that the Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ...
... Italy into the warring camps of the pro-papal Guelfs and pro-imperial Ghibellenes, purporting to incarnate the civic humanism of the ancients. What made the conflicts of Renaissance Italy of surpassing importance to Europe and the world was that the Italians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ...
The East- An Empire and a Religion
... the early 8th Century likewise banned them. Paintings of religious figures were destroyed. In the mid 9th Century both the Eastern and Western Churches accepted Icons, and both still do. – Over the centuries the two Churches -Excommunicated (forced out of the church) each others leaders for Heresy ( ...
... the early 8th Century likewise banned them. Paintings of religious figures were destroyed. In the mid 9th Century both the Eastern and Western Churches accepted Icons, and both still do. – Over the centuries the two Churches -Excommunicated (forced out of the church) each others leaders for Heresy ( ...
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident (from Latin: occidens ""sunset, West""; as contrasted with the Orient), is a term referring to different nations depending on the context. There are many accepted definitions about what they all have in common.The concept of the Western part of the earth has its roots in Greco-Roman civilization in Europe, and the advent of Christianity. In the modern era, Western culture has been heavily influenced by the traditions of the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Age of Enlightenment—and shaped by the expansive colonialism of the 15th-20th centuries. Before the Cold War era, the traditional Western viewpoint identified Western Civilization with the Western Christian (Catholic-Protestant) countries and culture. Its political usage was temporarily changed by the antagonism during the Cold War in the mid-to-late 20th Century (1947–1991).The term originally had a literal geographic meaning. It contrasted Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the remote Far East, which early-modern Europeans saw as the East. Today this has little geographic relevance since the concept of the West has been expanded to include the former European colonies in the Americas, Russian Northern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.In the contemporary cultural meaning, the phrase ""Western world"" includes Europe, as well as many countries of European colonial origin with substantial European ancestral populations in the Americas, Asia and Oceania.