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Since the [[Renaissance]], the West evolved beyond the [[influence]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] and the Islamic world due to the Commercial, Scientific, and Industrial Revolutions, and the expansion of the Christian peoples of Western European empires, and particularly the globe-spanning empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery Age of Discovery] and Columbus, the notion of the West expanded to include the [[America]]s, though much of the Americas have considerable pre-Western cultural influence. Australia, New Zealand and most countries of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America Latin America] are considered part of Western culture due to their former status as settler colonies of Western Christian nations. Generally speaking, the current [[consensus]] would locate the West, at the very least, in the [[cultures]] and peoples of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America] (namely Canada, U.S., and Mexico), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia Australia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand New Zealand] and most countries in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America South America]. There is debate among some as to whether Eastern Europe is in a category of its own. Culturally Eastern Europe is usually more or less accepted into the 'West', mainly because of its geographic location in what is mostly Europe (and cultural ties). However, it does not fill the traditional economic and living-standard criteria typically associated with "The West".[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident]

Since the [[Renaissance]], the West evolved beyond the [[influence]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] and the Islamic world due to the Commercial, Scientific, and Industrial Revolutions, and the expansion of the Christian peoples of Western European empires, and particularly the globe-spanning empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery Age of Discovery] and Columbus, the notion of the West expanded to include the [[America]]s, though much of the Americas have considerable pre-Western cultural influence. Australia, New Zealand and most countries of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America Latin America] are considered part of Western culture due to their former status as settler colonies of Western Christian nations. Generally speaking, the current [[consensus]] would locate the West, at the very least, in the [[cultures]] and peoples of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America] (namely Canada, U.S., and Mexico), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia Australia], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand New Zealand] and most countries in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America South America]. There is debate among some as to whether Eastern Europe is in a category of its own. Culturally Eastern Europe is usually more or less accepted into the 'West', mainly because of its geographic location in what is mostly Europe (and cultural ties). However, it does not fill the traditional economic and living-standard criteria typically associated with "The West".[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident]

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