European Hit

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This panel witnesses the historical turmoil as well as the cultural achievements of the Western world. The Occidentals have been shaping the world’s history for 500 years since the Italian Renaissance, which was a flowering convergency of the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean Sea: Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Judeo-Christian. Venus, Jesus Christ, and the Mona Lisa are three of the most prominent “Icons” of Western culture, which was rationalized in the Age of Enlightenment and then industrialized after the mass productive ability of machines. Yet, in the pursuit of Science untempered by Love, the Western world was gripped in an arms competition and headed unfortunately to destructive wars, as witnessed by Picasso. Amidst the fast-paced material progress that thrives in the West, a nostalgia emerges for a simpler life, a return to the fresh air, sunshine, and pastoral countryside as romanticized by some of the Impressionists.Pushed on by the excitement of exploration and the yearning for adventure, the Westerners embarked on a journey to the Moon. Led by American astronauts, we, humanity landed on the Moon and ushered in an Age of Space.