Lo1: Define Western Civilization
Lo2: Identifying and locating"The west"
Lo3: describe characteristics of the modern Western World
Thinking Historically: Characteristics of the Modern Western World
Western civilization is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.
1.Liberal democracy: is a liberal political ideology and a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of classical liberalism.
2.Economic liberalism: is a political ideology based on organizing the economy on lines of individual freedom. This means that economic decisions are made by the individual, not an organization. Economic liberals also believe in the free market and laisse faire economic policies.
3.Christianity: is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Its adherents, known as Christians, believe that Jesus is the Christ, whose coming as the messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, called the Old Testament in Christianity, and chronicled in the New Testament.
4.The separation of church and state: is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the nation state.
5.progress: (countable and uncountable, plural progresses) Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.] Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth
6.Civil liberties are freedoms guaranteed to us by the Constitution to protect us from tyranny (think: our freedom of speech), while civil rights are the legal rights that protect individuals from discrimination (think: employment discrimination). You have the rightto remain silent.
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