Western Europe

A geographic and cultural region comprising the westernmost countries of Europe, typically including nations such as France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Italy, and the Low Countries, defined historically by shared political, economic, and cultural developments since the fall of the Roman Empire.

Claims that use this term

• The Dark Ages represent an undue concentration on Western Europe.
• Western Europe lost knowledge of Africa after Rome’s collapse
• The heresy view of Islam reached Western Europe via ninth-century dhimmi Christians in Spain
• America’s cultural politics is defined by constructing ethnic hierarchies, unlike Western Europe
• Capitalist expansion ran on coerced labor, not wage labor, outside Western Europe.
• Theoretical ideological racism originated in Western Europe specifically