The Odyssey of Western Civilization: Episode 1

Episode 1: The Origins of Western Civilization
Hosted by Victor Davis Hanson

The West arose in a particular time and place, Greece in the eighth century B.C., during the dark age that followed the collapse of Mycenaean civilization.
An agricultural revolution gave rise to the autonomous yeoman farmer, backbone of the democratic city-state.
Their innovations included constitutional government, free-market economics, private property and individual liberty – concepts unknown in Mycenae, not to mention Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Here the West begins.
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