HIST111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intellectual History, History Of Europe, Feudalism
4 Jan 2016
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Historians and scholars invented this term, a cold war term, when the war was sort of over. Because the term western civilization can include more societies - such as america. It really is a loaded term, it is not a self evident term. Spain, england, greece, germany, france, the uk and so on. Before the fall of communist russia and the communist bloc pretty much from western. Germany (i. e. germany was a communist bloc country) to north america. Mainly countries that are past the industrialization era. The europeans who were not part of the communist bloc, plus the u. s. and canada. Culture is one way to define the west . Such as religion - christianity, protestantism, catholicism. Israel is sometimes considered the west, but is not geographically apart of the west. Turkey is complicated because they are halfway apart of the west, including the capital of. After world war two, german and french historians fled to america.
