The Western world | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:02:37 1 Introduction
00:06:12 2 Western/European culture
00:08:44 3 Historical divisions
00:10:54 3.1 Ancient Greek-Hellenistic worlds (13th–1st centuries BC)
00:13:24 3.2 Ancient Roman world (509 BC–AD 476)
00:20:36 3.3 Middle Ages: Byzantine Empire (AD 395–1450), Holy Roman Empire (AD 800/962–1806), East-West Schism (AD 1054), Protestant Reformation (1500s)
00:30:05 3.4 Colonial West: discovery of America, mercantilism and imperialism (15th–20th centuries)
00:40:52 3.5 Cold War context (1947–1991)
00:43:20 3.6 Cold War II context
00:44:33 4 Modern definitions
00:46:03 4.1 Cultural definition
00:48:31 4.2 Economic definition
00:50:54 4.3 Latin America and the Orthodox world
00:54:08 5 Other views
00:56:38 5.1 Views on torn countries
00:57:58 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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The Western world, also known as the West, refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least parts of Europe, Australasia, and the Americas, with the status of Latin America disputed by some. There are many accepted definitions, all closely interrelated. The Western world is also known as the Occident (from the Latin word occidens, "sunset, West"), in contrast to the Orient (from the Latin word oriens, "rise, East"), or Eastern world.
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome are generally considered to be the birthplaces of Western civilization (with Greece having influenced the development of Rome): the former due to its impact on philosophy, democracy, science and art, building designs and proportions, architecture; the latter due to its influence on law, warfare, governance, republicanism, engineering and religion. Western civilization is also founded upon Christianity, which is in turn shaped by Hellenistic philosophy, Judaism and Roman culture. In the modern era, Western culture has been heavily influenced by the Renaissance, the Ages of Discovery and Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolutions. Through extensive imperialism and Christianization by Western powers in the 15th to 20th centuries, much of the rest of the world has been influenced by Western culture.
The concept of the Western part of the earth has its roots in the theological, methodological and emphatical division between the Western Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. West was originally literal, opposing Catholic Europe with the cultures and civilizations of Orthodox Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the remote Far East, which early-modern Europeans saw as the East.
By the mid-20th century. worldwide export of Western culture went through the new mass media: film, radio and television and recorded music, while the development and growth of international transport and telecommunication (such as transatlantic cable and the radiotelephone) played a decisive role in modern globalization. In modern usage, Western world sometimes refers to Europe and to areas whose populations largely originate from Europe, through the Age of Discovery.