The Triumph of the West

- Season 1

(1985)

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Visits China, Japan and India, where western forces remain far stronger than anything left by the legacy of imperialism.

Shows that religious beliefs are still a significant force even in a secular age.

Although Charlemagne, St Benedict and Martin Luther all contributed to the history of Europe, people only learned gradually to think of themselves as Europeans.

The crusades against Islam, which marked an important stage in the evolution of an aggressive Christian Europe.

The spread of Byzantine Christianity through Western Europe and Russia, and the impact of the Islamic Ottoman Turks.

The process of Western expansion towards the New World from the 15th to 17th centuries.

Contemptuous attitudes of the conquistadors towards native cultures of Central and South America and of Northern European Protestants as they colonized North America.

Scientific and intellectual ferment.

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Idealism of the British turned against them.

China and the cultural choice.

Economic failure and the collapse of Western empires.

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