Foundations of Western Civilization-A Video Presentation on June 3

Report by Santanu Ganguly: The Foundations of Western Civilization – an education in 24 evenings. An Attic video presentation from The Great Courses taught by Prof. Thomas Noble, University of Notre Dame.

You can discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization from its humble beginnings in the great river valleys of Iraq and Egypt to the dawn of the modern world.

Monday 3rd June, 6.30 pm

Lecture 47 Exploration and Empire

In purely material terms (population, natural resources etc) the peninsular appendage of Asia that is Europe should not have been the one among all world civilizations to span the globe. But starting in the latter decades of the 15th century, that is what happened.

Lecture 48 What Challenges Remain?

You leave the West in 1600, on the cusp of the Age of Empire, the Scientific Revolution, and the Baroque period. It’s a long way from those mud walled villages in Mesopotamia to the threshold of its modern era, but certain patterns, problems and possibilities endure to make the West what it is.

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