William Weir, 50 Battles That Changed the World: The Conflicts That Most Influenced the Course of History
Book-mart Press | ISBN 1564144917 | 2001 | PDF | 5.7 MB | 321 pages
The ancient Greeks saw history, to a large extent, as a record of the conflict between East and West. That is certainly a viable idea. There are, in a very general sense, two cultures in the world— Western and Eastern. The former would include ev erything from the Orthodox-influenced culture of Russia to the secular culture of the United States. The latter would include the Far Eastern culture of China and Japan, both deeply non-Western in spite of a Western veneer, and a wide variety of other cultures, many of them Islamic. Neither the East nor the West has managed to absorb the other, but it wasn't for want of trying. This struggle, too, goes back to Marathon. It continues through Alexander, Crassus and the seemingly interminable conflicts between Christianity and Islam...
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