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Jackson Joseph Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at Pennsylvania State University. [1] His textbooks on world history, Western civilization and Nazi Germany are widely adopted in middle school, high school, and college history courses throughout the United States.
A map showing Charlemagne's additions (in light green) to the Germanic Frankish Kingdom. After his reign, the empire he created broke apart into the kingdom of France (from Francia meaning "land of the Franks"), Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom in between (containing modern day Switzerland, northern-Italy, Eastern France and the low-countries).
The origins of Western civilization can be traced back to the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Greece [d] and Ancient Rome [e] are generally considered to be the birthplaces of Western civilization—Greece having heavily influenced Rome—the former due to its impact on philosophy, democracy, science, aesthetics, as well as building designs and proportions and architecture; the latter due ...
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, Western society, or simply the West, refers to the internally diverse culture of the Western world. The term "Western" encompasses the social norms , ethical values , traditional customs , belief systems , political systems , artifacts and ...
Spielvogel, Jackson J., 2005. Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500. Thomson Wadsworth. Wandycz, Piotr. "The Little Entente: Sixty Years Later" Slavonic and East European Review (1981) 59#4 pp. 548–564 online; Zeman, Zbyněk and Antonín Klimek, 1997. The Life of Edvard Beneš 1884-1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War. Oxford, UK ...
The series focuses on the origins and evolution of Western civilization, and the transformative challenges and influence it has exerted on the rest of the world. [2] The thirteen one-hour episodes examined the socio-economic, political, and cultural movements that helped shape world history. The programmes painted a broad canvas but avoided ...
Elon Musk quietly takes down post calling MacKenzie Scott a threat to civilization for giving billions away to social justice causes Christiaan Hetzner March 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM
The unity of the Catholic Church was shattered by the Western Schism. The Holy Roman Empire was also in decline. In the aftermath of the Great Interregnum (1247–1273), the empire lost cohesion and the separate dynasties of the various German states became more politically important than their union under the emperor. [citation needed]