The Concept of the "Rise of the West" Includes All

question 82

Multiple Choice

The concept of the "rise of the West" includes all of the following except

• A) the belief of the innate superiority of Western civilization over all other cultures.
• B) the idea that the West has the responsibility to spread its culture to all others.
• C) Western hegemony over all other civilizations has existed since the era of the ancient Greeks.
• D) the significant influence of European civilization over much of the world extends only back to the sixteenth century.
• E) non-western civilizations are by definition inferior to the civilization of Europe.

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