Europe Was INVENTED. Here’s How | Ash Sarkar Meets Roderick Beaton

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As the American empire teeters, China gains dominance, and war spreads across Eastern Europe and West Asia, questions arise as to Europe’s place in this rapidly changing world order. On Downstream this week, Ash Sarkar speaks to Roderick Beaton, former Koraes Professor of History at King's College London, about his latest book ‘Europe: A New History’. How did the boundaries between Europe and Asia come to be drawn in the first place? How were immigration and borders administered by the empires of antiquity? How do the stories we tell about our collective history in Europe shape contemporary political thought? And in an age of mass migration, who gets to be European today – and why? 00:00 Introduction 00:02:41:02 Who Gets to Be European? 00:04:51:21 The Many Historical Attempts to Unite Europe from the Romans to Charles V 00:07:30:10 The Sacking of Rome 00:09:35:20 Roman Military Strategies in Ancient Europe 00:12:37:08 Immigration in the Ancient World 00:15:15:14 The Battle of Marathon & the Invention of Continents 00:20:09:07 Herodotus: Father of History, Father of Lies 00:21:18:06 The Blurry Boundary Between Asia & Europe 00:23:24:01 Alexander the Great’s Europe 00:26:29:02 Genocide in the Ancient World 00:29:48:08 Republics Versus Expansionist Empires 00:33:19:09 Emperor Hadrian: Flamboyant Technocrat 00:36:31:19 America & The Ancient World 00:39:16:16 Why Did the EU Choose Brussels, not Rome or Athens, as its Capital? 00:41:58:13 The Stories That Define Europeans 00:45:48:02 European Leaders As Gods 00:49:45:19 How Has Islam Defined Europe? 00:55:10:02 The Moorish Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula 00:59:57:12 The Reconquest and the Inquisition 01:04:00:17 Russia & the Unstable Boundaries of Europe 01:08:05:22 The Ukraine Question 01:12:15:02 How Can We Define Contemporary European Cultural Identity? 01:15:57:01 European Defence: Does Europe Need a Centralised Army? Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/