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Would you say that Kazakhstan was part of the West? What about Volgograd? Was the Chelyabinsk Meteor part of western or eastern history?
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
Would you say that Kazakhstan was part of the West? What about Volgograd? Was the Chelyabinsk Meteor part of western or eastern history?
- nine_k 4y agoVolgograd, née Stalingrad, was a site of a major battle of WWII, which makes it a part of Western history. That same logic makes the Japanese city of Hiroshima a major part of Westetn history, too. But these events are not yet a century old. Wars between ancient Greece and ancient Persia are 25 or so centuries old. An excited description of the Persian emperor Cyrus by Xenophon, a Greek, is about as old; that book was a bestseller in Europe for several centuries. Persia interacted with the European West a lot. Ancient Egypt is also a major part of Western history, for a really long list of reasons. (Arabian Egypt, not so much, of course.)
- Gordonjcp 4y ago25 centuries - 2500 years - isn't that long ago. That's well into the Iron Age, with signs of early industrial processes - moulds and jigs for making iron tools and weapons - cropping up in some sites.