Maybe those orientalists were onto something.
Forgive my ignorance, but it seems the global East has very little contribution to human civilization, esp disproportionate considering how much of humanity lives in the East (don't give me "the Chinese invented paper").
BTW, when I say that, I include Islam in "Western Civilization", not eastern. Islamic caliphates were the intellectual successors of the Roman empire and the predecessors of renaissance Europe.
Watch this when you have time. It's long and starts slow but it's definitely worth watching if you want to understand why I am saying the above.
The point made in the video is, Islam was part of Western Civilization and that PolSci courses in the West are essentially saying "Western Civilization = Christian civilization" and completely ignore the Islamic worlds' contribution to western civilization. He says, PolSci should start with the advent of settled societies and govts, which he says are first recorded around 6th millennium BC. But those 6 millenia are glanced over in a first two of the 15 weeks of the semester. The rest is all about equating Western Civilization to Judeo-christian civilization. And the misleading term, "Dark Ages" is used to indicate the western civilization's darkest period was after the Fall of Rome in 476 AD, when the Roman empire never really fell. It shifted it's capital to it's eastern wing in Constantiople. And that the torch was carried forward by muslims until the renaissance, something that is completely ignored and "Dark ages" myth is peddled.
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