- The old world, symbol of prosperity and progress, includes in its own history lights and shadows that still live together today. Rationality, logic and democracy were born in ancient civilizations that constantly asked themselves what was the best way to understand the human being and what was the most perfect way to organize themselves. With a dark past marked by wars, authoritarianism, colonialism and exploitation, the old continent is now facing an opportunity to reinvent itself again by applying models of social, economic and political management that combine and include respect for the values it claims to follow -