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Line 5: − During its history, beginning in ancient times, the Western World, based in Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa, was the center of intellectualism, technological innovations, industrialization, Christianity, and science. The Western World, mainly the European Sphere, reached its peak during the Gilded Age (1870-1914) when the colonial empires such as the British, French, Russian and German Empires were at their height, conquering lands once belonging to African tribes, most of Asia, and parts of the Middle East once under the rule of the Islamic Ottoman Empire.
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Other nations sometimes included in the political and cultural sense of this definition include countries in Eastern Europe (since the fall of the [[Iron Curtain]]), [[Israel]], [[Japan]], [[South Korea]], [[Taiwan]], and [[Hong Kong]] and Latin American countries such as [[Mexico]]. [[Costa Rica]] and [[Brazil]] considered to be extensions of Western Civilization or are Eastern countries that imitate the Western World.
Other nations sometimes included in the political and cultural sense of this definition include countries in Eastern Europe (since the fall of the [[Iron Curtain]]), [[Israel]], [[Japan]], [[South Korea]], [[Taiwan]], and [[Hong Kong]] and Latin American countries such as [[Mexico]]. [[Costa Rica]] and [[Brazil]] considered to be extensions of Western Civilization or are Eastern countries that imitate the Western World.
== See also ==
== See also ==