History of western civilization

  1. How did the West see itself as superior to the other cultures and civilizations of the world? What kinds of things did the West have that other parts of the world didn’t? What, in turn, did Westerners give themselves permission to do with these things? Use the Week 8 documents to answer this question.
  2. By the time that World War I breaks out, is Western Civilization really that “civilized?” Use the Trench Poems and Jünger’s Storm of Steel to make your argument.