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    Civilization: Is the West History?

    2011 · History · 1 season

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  1. Episode Guide

    • 1. Competition
      1. Competition Mar 6, 2011
      • Niall Ferguson's investigates how Western civilization came to dominate the world.
    • 2. The Siege
      2. The Siege Mar 13, 2011
      • Niall Ferguson investigates why the Islamic world didn't participate in the Scientific Revolution.
      • Niall analyzes how the West's work ethic contributed to the global dominance of its social model.
  2. 10 April 2011. ( 2011-04-10) Civilization: Is the West History? is a 2011 British TV documentary that tells how Western civilisation, in five centuries, transformed into the dominating civilisation in the world. Presented by Niall Ferguson, the show reveals the 'killer apps' of the West's success – competition, science, the property owning ...

    • Documentary
  3. Mar 5, 2011 · March 12, 2011. 47min. TV-G. 1683, a time when domination of the West was within Islam’s grasp. A vast Ottoman army laid siege to Vienna, capital of Europe’s most powerful empire. But the Islamic world was defeated – not by firepower, but brain power.

  4. Civilization: Is the West History?: With Niall Ferguson, Peter Janda, John Lindell, Annekatrin Hendel. Documentary: Niall Ferguson investigates how western civilization came to dominate the world.

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    • 2011-03-06
    • Documentary
    • Niall Ferguson, Peter Janda, John Lindell
  5. Jan 19, 2016 · Episode 1 - CompetitionThe first programme in the series begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the worl...

    • 47 min
    • 81.1K
    • Christian Nilsen
  6. For the purposes of this article, the “West” is that civilization which grew up in western Europe after the end of the Roman Empire. Its roots lay in the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome (which themselves built on foundations laid in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ). It took shape in medieval Europe, with its Christian religion ...

  7. Jan 19, 2016 · Niall Ferguson asks why it was that Western civilization, from inauspicious roots in the 15th century, came to dominate the rest of the world; and if the Wes...

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  9. How did Western civilization come to transform and dominate the world in a span of five centuries? In this series, host Niall Ferguson discusses what he believes lead to the success of the West: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism, and work. Civilization: Is the West History? Episode 1. 47 minutes 4 seconds.

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