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Practically all of Asia is west of Japan anyway. So Persia is far, far west, and a part of ancient Western history along with Greece.
Persia, some of which is now Iran, is a part of Western history? Oh boy.
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Practically all of Asia is west of Japan anyway. So Persia is far, far west, and a part of ancient Western history along with Greece.
Persia, some of which is now Iran, is a part of Western history? Oh boy.
On of the most punishing games I've ever played. If you've lost your upgrades it's basically game over.
I just give up the game as soon as I die once
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Persia, some of which is now Iran, is a part of Western history? Oh boy.
Would you say that Kazakhstan was part of the West? What about Volgograd? Was the Chelyabinsk Meteor part of western or eastern history?
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.)
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Persia, some of which is now Iran, is a part of Western history? Oh boy.
If you read history the answer is yes. So is Babylon, as a matter of fact. "West" is an offshoot of the Egyptian-Greek-Persian-Jewish cultural matrix, with themselves built on generous helping of Mesopotamian civilization.
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Persia, some of which is now Iran, is a part of Western history? Oh boy.
If you read history the answer is yes. So is Babylon, as a matter of fact. "West" is an offshoot of the Egyptian-Greek-Persian-Jewish cultural matrix, with themselves built on generous helping of Mesopotamian civilization.
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If you read history the answer is yes. So is Babylon, as a matter of fact. "West" is an offshoot of the Egyptian-Greek-Persian-Jewish cultural matrix, with themselves built on generous helping of Mesopotamian civilization.
If you read history, the original East/West split was Persia/Greece.
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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?
Volgograd, 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 wa…
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If you read history, the original East/West split was Persia/Greece.
Strange then to find (~Greek) Gnostic writings that have the Pythagores and Zaratustra attending Babylonian seminars, with latter teaching the former 'astronomy'. Archaic, no doubt, but put yourself in the place of the reader (in the "West") at the time of the writing and ask youself: What "divide"? Political order differences? East Asia was and remains far more 'alien' to Iranians that Greeks. Note that the East Asi…
Also, to the Chinese, India was "the West". The famous novel Journey to the West is a fictionalized account of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled from China to India to bring back copies of Buddhist texts that had not yet reached China. And nobody doubts that Buddhism originally reached China from India ("the West").
I don't think "political order differences" makes sense as a distinguishing mark. Over the last 2500 years there's been theocracy, hereditary monarchy, various kinds of democracy, military dictatorship, etc., in both the East and the West, however you define them.