Chapter Seventy-Three: Is the West a Civilization?
The Caliphate, the co-owner of the Is-Ran world, has become more involved in history.
It was not behind the scenes, but in front of the stage, and it was the actual ruler of the Arab world.
However, the Mongol expedition swept away, the entire city of Baghdad was slaughtered, and the caliph was wrapped in a blanket and trampled into meat with horses, which directly broke the Arab caliphate inheritance and Arab civilization.
The power that truly rules the world will not be so obscene. Huoshan, the ancestor of terrorism, Eagle Fort, the ancestor of terrorist organizations, has been in the Western Regions for a century and a half, and in the face of the truly terrifying Hülegü's Third Mongol Western Expeditionary Army, what kind of fear is gone.
Britain in the West, the United States. Latin Rome, Spain. Special Tsarist Russia with special USSR. Arab Caliphate, Uthman. The Han, Tang, Mongolian, and Qing dynasties in the East, this is really terrifying, all of them are masters who can destroy civilizations and not even leave a racial imprint.
Nazi Germany does not look very ferocious, but in fact, it is the same as the nature of Japan, the short-term expansion is quite ferocious, and all the shrinkage is lost, and the civilization cannot stand, and it is not as deep as the influence of the Holy Roman Empire, which is neither sacred, nor Roman, nor an empire, on Western civilization.
In terms of the influence on the inherent civilization, there is no one that has had the deepest influence on the West in the broad sense of the word than in the pan-Italian region, but Rome, Italy, Spain, including Central and South America, this is the Latin civilization, which is different from the Anglo-American one.
Originally, there was no such thing as Western civilization, but the West in a broad sense includes the Western Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere, how can it be a civilization? There are many believers.
Just like before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the historical falsification of Central and West Asia was already completed and spread long ago. Just as Spain, which was occupied by the Arabs for 700 years, how could it be one civilization with Britain and the United States?
Just like Northern Europe, it is a civilization such as the Vikings that have been transformed by Catholicism. Just like Greece, it became independent from the Ottomans only before the Crow, and was intervened by Europe, and then considered the source of Western civilization.
Why recognize ancient Greece? Because except for the Pan-Mediterranean circle, there is no civilization in the rest of Europe, mountain and forest savages, a group of tribes fighting back and forth.
Rome, the source of the West, is the Latin civilization, and many things come from Arabia and the East.
Ancient Greece has too many doubts, no one can understand the text, but it can leave so many famous sayings, geometry originally appeared suddenly, there is no paper but there is the Library of Alexandria, a bit like an oracle bone inscription, true or false anyway.
A bunch of barbarians who have been reformed by Roman Catholicism, it is not clear who the ancestors are, but Italy is their ancestor, there is no doubt about it. Without Rome, Catholicism could not be propagated, there was no Latin, many languages and scripts were absent, and these had nothing to do with ancient Greece, which left behind relics and myths.
The unification of the German states and Italy into Germany and Italy was around 1871, and France had a strong influence on Europe during the classical era and the Revolution. But it can't stand up, it shrinks too quickly, the competitiveness of civilization is relatively low, and the Anglo-Saxon civilization cannot be touched within Western civilization in the broad sense. France is self-contained, it is Gaul, and the civilization is closer to the Latin Catholic civilization than to the Anglo-American.
The only influences on world civilization that old Europe can pull out alone are Spain and Britain, because the core of these two civilizations is the most ferocious, Spain is murderous, and the Caribbean and South America are all standing.
Britain is not only brutal but also very intelligent, and has reformed countless far-reaching capitalist rules and institutions, and even if it shrinks, Anglo-Saxon civilization has established itself in many parts of the world.
Just as Italy enlightened the ignorant Europe, France was as culturally developed as Italy in the classical era, Paris was the vane of European fashion, and French and Italian Latin were popular, which had a profound impact on old Europe itself.
But these two guys are used to being comfortable, they don't want to come out when they meet the great voyage, even if they deal with the industrial revolution, they are unhurried, what is unsatisfactory to say C'estlavie "This is life" shrugged on the line, and I wanted to open it.
In the nineteenth century, England still stipulated that workers, including child labor, could not work less than 12 hours a day, and unlike the murderous factories in England, Sweden and Germany, French citizens had a tradition of looking for trouble, and when they were not satisfied, they would put up signs, masquerade balls everywhere, and build barricades if they were not happy.
France is a good hand at revolution, but the industrial revolution cannot be carried out, and if France dares to carry out the industrial revolution, French citizens will dare to revolution.
France's national strength and geography are among the best in Europe, the best geographical advantage in the period of great exploration is France and Spain, down is the westerly wind belt, direct navigation to the Americas, no one can block it, but it can blockade Britain in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and a point of strength can get three points of British results.
But because he is much richer than Britain and has a developed culture, he doesn't want to move, and he is easily tied up by Britain's policy of maintaining continental equilibrium, and he would rather bully people easily behind Britain than challenge hegemony, and it is doomed to be beaten by Germany, Austria wants to fight it, standing in the pit and not, and players who can't easily go out in the east look anxious for France.
France is not bad, one is to add blockage to Britain and release the beautiful demon, the other is to meet Napoleon with a whip and move twice, but as soon as he loses, he immediately admits planting and continues to go home to put usury, except for a few islands in the corners of the overseas branch base, the larger ones can't be retained, and only Africa still has a little influence.
However, the characteristics of civilization are scattered very quickly, and it is impossible to stand, and it is difficult for French to land. The point is that French counting is too difficult, more difficult than Chinese enlightenment, the indigenous can learn to hell, the smart ones finally learn French to count, once teaching addition and subtraction collapsed, people don't have to do anything else in this life to count.
The mathematicians who counted in French couldn't teach people, their thinking was different, Fermat didn't talk about it, how many people died suddenly with Fourier and Lagrange, the British taught students to ask for money, the French taught students to die, and the last student in many places was not taught, and the core of civilization was not hardened.
It was originally one of the largest countries in Europe, but it was continuously impacted by British and American cultures, the French defense war was started, and the core of its own civilization continued to weaken, not only facing the challenge of civilization within the West in a broad sense, but also the danger of being disrupted by foreign civilization.
Italy is even more homely, itself is not short of money, and the sequelae of too developed culture. It is the real advanced civilization, everything depends on flickering, first fooling Europe into the Dark Ages to pay it the poll tax, seeing people touch its wallet to fool the crusaders to the east, idle and nothing to start enlightenment again, the great voyage does not go, the industrial revolution is not engaged, the war is dealt with, anyway, the defeat never loses territory, there is no pressure at all.
Regardless of whether all wars are won or lost, they are the final victorious countries, and the first war showed the style of transposition, one of the axes of World War II can still mix with the victorious country, and the most mixed country in Europe has extremely profound thoughts.
Not only does it depend on it, but enlightenment also depends on it, it is all it that invented the Nazis and terminated the Nazis, a very unique one in the core of civilization, an idea is the enemy of thousands of troops, the ideological source of Latin civilization, as long as there is an Italian, the United States is not a victory.
The fighting nation has always been the most special, from Kievan Rus' to Moscow Rus', it has always been neither the West nor the East, first Byzantium and then Mongolia, and then Byzantium and Mongolia mixed blood to come out of Tsarist Russia, from the time of Peter the Great began to gradually introduce the Dutch and British system, transforming the inherent mixed culture core of Tsarist Russia.
The transformation failed and the Soviet Union was established, and it is the most special, the collective farm was not invented by the Soviet Union, it itself was a thing of the Tsarist era, and the end of Tsarist Russia was the same as the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the result was the same.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's recognition of the West and the West's disapproval, is still the fate of the lone star.
Later Russia has become a Byzantine and Mongol cultural association with Soviet relics and a capitalist federal special parliamentary system, the parliament is a bit like the upper federal council, but it is not elected, and each federal subject has two people. The lower Duma is a party rather than an individual, the republics and oblasts do not listen to the Federal Assembly, each plays its own game, and Putin-Medvedev and Medvedev are both non-partisan, and the design of the upper echelons is very ingenious, but it is also very special.
A super civilization has a characteristic, that is, when it is at its peak, the known world has no opponents, and all surrounding civilizations will be influenced or swallowed by it.
With the development of science and technology, circulation has accelerated, and the connection has become more and more close, and the known world is slowly no longer limited to regions. Roads, railways, ships, airplanes, media, networks, capillaries and aorta, connect the known world in parallel, and then there is a super civilization, and the civilization covers the whole world.
In terms of existing civilization, the origins of the West in the broad sense can be traced back to Rome. Latin civilization is the backbone, and Anglo-American is the branch. It was only later that the British and the United States, these two sheep herders were too fierce, which frightened people, thinking that the two of them were really cultural people, but in fact, even within Western civilization in a broad sense, these two were two goods.
In the fifteenth century, sheep were still herding, there was no main nation, the rulers were all foreigners, and all the landers were Taijun, and the Anglo-Saxons suddenly thought that they were the main nation of England, but in fact they were a race mixed with foreign tribes.
Not to mention the fast food culture of Lao Mei, it is even more mixed, and "Clash of Civilizations" is quite able to elevate itself and swallow people's Latin civilization.
Italy could not defeat Britain, just as China lost to Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War, but it cannot be said that Japanese civilization is the backbone, this is impossible.
London was all built by Rome, Britain itself is not civilized, there are no British, all barbarians, it has always been the landing of foreign peoples, and then stubble by stubble, mixed with Latin Viking, Germanic and many other foreign races.
The British Isles have always been a group of slave tribes, herding sheep in the 15th century, Wales in the 16th century, and Scotland in the early 18th century.
The real core of civilization in Britain and the United States is the pirate code, and pirates plus herding sheep create two overlords, it's as simple as that.