What Western ideas and events have significantly influenced the world in the last three centuries?
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On the positive side:\nThe American Christian missionary movement\nRepersentative Democarcy\nDisaster releif\n\nOn the more negative side\nHuman secularism\nwith its doctrines of evolution and new age movements
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Hey what exactly do you have in mind?\n\nSome general ideas here:\n\nhttp://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101ilec/sasia/ssc/ssdiv/ssdivfr.htm\n\nAlso, UNESCO published this document on the topic: www.unu.edu/hq/japanese/ gs-j/gs2004j/shonan20/kaldun.pdf \n\nIn the meantime, you can also get some ideas from this text\n\nIts principal language groups include Sino-Tibetan, Indo-Aryan, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, and Semitic; important singular languages include Japanese and Korean. East Asia contains three main ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The Indian subcontinent is home to a vast diversity of peoples, most of whom speak languages from the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European family. Because of the influence of China and the former Soviet Union, the Mandarin Chinese dialect and the Russian language are used widely. Asia is the birthplace of all the world's major religions and hundreds of minor ones. Hinduism is the oldest major religion to have originated in southern Asia; Jainism and Buddhism emerged in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, respectively. Southwest Asia was the cradle of the so-called Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Daoism and Confucianism, both of which originated in the 6th or 5th century BC, have profoundly influenced Chinese culture and the cultures of surrounding peoples. Asia is marked by great disparities in wealth. A few countries, notably Japan, Singapore, and the oil-rich countries of the Arabian Peninsula, have attained high standards of living; others, such as Bangladesh and Myanmar, are among the poorest. Between these two extremes lie Russia, China, and India. Asia is a land of great cultural diversity, but there are five main cultural influences: Chinese, Indian, Islamic, European, and Central Asian. China has had great influence in East Asia as the source of Confucianism, artistic styles, and the Chinese writing system. Indian influence has been expressed through Hinduism and Buddhism, affecting the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Central Asia. Islam spread from its original Arabian home to become important in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and elsewhere.
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Western Europe is as developed, if not more, than the US. If you take a look at Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland or Austria (to name a few), you will see that, even though they have a different style of living, their "modernity" is similar, if not more advanced, than that of the US. There are also South-Eastern countries who are just developing, due to having been occupied or influenced by the Communist regime. Anyway, most of them are preparing to join the European Union, which will help them reach the modern European and American standard. I believe the old continent is evolving at a very fast pace.
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What year and what part of the world are you referring to?
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Information on what has come before, the world that used to be, and how to make the current world better/safer.
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Islam is the only potent force, based on general Western assumptions, that poses a challenge to the whole Idea and existence of present Western Civilisation. It has been one in the past and continues to be so in the future. It is traditionally perceived as the complete antithesis to anything that the West believes and aspires the world to be.\nIt was the only major religion that existed at a State level that challenged Trinity, Christianity and the whole of Christendom of the past. \nIt was the only religion that formed the basis of an Empire that posed a potential threat to the Middle Age christian Kingdoms, Byzantium and the holy Roman Empire. \nIt was the only religion that set foot on Western Europe in Spain for 700 years and revived Classical knowledge of ancient Roman and Greece only to be ousted vehemently later.\nIt continued to be a threat to the very idea of the Enlightenment, the basis of modern Western ideals on secularism and humanism.\nIt was the only thing that continues to challenge the real estate claim to Jerusalem as a holy place.\nIt shares the history of Adam, Abraham and the Israelite prophets but presented it in a different perspective.\nAfter the downfall of Communism, the West must continue to weed out anything that comes in its way. The biggest is Islam.\n\nThe West today dominates the present world and the world sees itself through Western perspectives. \nIt is not a mere coincidence, therefore that such gross misunderstanding is able to take place.
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The Columbian Exchange (also sometimes known as The Grand Exchange) has been one of the significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of agricultural goods, livestock, slave labor, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that occurred after 1492. That year, Christopher Columbus' first voyage launched an era of large-scale contact between the Old and the New World that resulted in this ecological revolution: hence the name "Columbian" Exchange.
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rusian revolution changes\n\nhttp://www.museum.ru/mirror/vlmp/l_VLMPe.asp\n\n:> peace
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It's already started...but it's occurring in different parts of the world. Cause; the supposedly 'mature' states (yes...states) of the Western world.
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One topic that has been discussed a great deal in recent months would be the mysteries surrounding Leonardo da Vinci.  How about the effects of the Internet on society and culture?  How is a country that invokes the death penalty different from a country that doesn't?  The pros and cons of decriminalizing marijuana would be an interesting topic.  Or consider the issue of the use of medicinal marijuana.  Is the world really over-populated or is that thought an urban myth?  You can find a wealth of information on various aspects of global warming.   Is there intelligent life on other planets?  Does the full moon really affect behavior?  Is there such a thing as a "right to die"?  I hope this helps.  Good luck with it.
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YOU NEED TO DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK, but I'll do you a small favor....\n\nIn 1750, the world was known to be round.  In 1450, the world was widely and officially considered flat.\n\nNow, think of what historical incident brought about this change of thought.  You got it?  Good - now think about the fortunes of various peoples and nations WORLDWIDE that accrued from the historical incident you figured out.\n\nYou now have the makings of a brainstorm that will lead you to a theme, an outline, and an essay.
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First of all, the Black Plaque took place over several centuries, recurring essentially every generation between the 14th and 17th centuries. During this time, the world was incredibly fractitious and separated. There was little communication between Asia and Europe and there was intense rivalry between the countries of Western Europe. There was no one dominant figure of the period, except perhaps the Pope in Europe.
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There are many things that are happening since the last 5000 years. there are some societies who think good when they develop and some find it comfortable in th eold surroundings. What matters in the quality of what happen around us rather than the time since when it is happening.
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So many things happened in the 20th century!\n\nTechnology boomed: If you don't have a cell phone, TV, or computer, you're seen as primitive.\n\nCivil Rights were established:  Women are much more independent now and have more freedoms.  Same with minority groups.\n\nGo with history.  Whatever historical event was important, there are social changes to follow.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world\nThird World is a term first coined in 1952 by French demographer Alfred Sauvy to distinguish nations that aligned themselves with neither the West nor with the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War. Today, however, the term is frequently used to denote nations with a low UN Human Development Index (HDI), independent of their political status (meaning that the PRC, Russia and Mexico, all of which were very strongly aligned during the Cold War, are often termed third world). However, there is no objective definition of Third World or "Third World country" and the use of the term remains controversial. In geographical and political academia, it is almost never used, as it is seen as being out of date, colonialist, othering and inaccurate. In general, Third World countries are not as industrialized or technologically advanced as OECD countries, and therefore in academia, the more politically correct term to use is "developing nation".
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Wow, you just asked a mouthful. Here is the short version off the top of my head. \n- latin america (huge) \n- spearheaded the current neo-liberal paradigm \n- nucular prolifiration debate
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Here's a link to a list of inventions.  I'll leave you to figure out which ones are most important how they changed the world.\n\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/chinainventions.html