"After the Greeks (and thus the Romans) were CIVILIZED BY THE AFRICANS IN EGYPT most of what we now know as 'Europe' was still barbaric, and unheard of.
There was really NO EUROPE in ancient times......and Europe as we know it was divided by the Rhine-Danube frontier, south and west of which lay the civilized provinces of the empire, and north and east the ''BARBARIANS' of whom the civilized world KNEW ALMOST NOTHING"
A HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD
R.R. Palmer (Prof. Yale University)
and Joel Colton (Prof. of History at Duke University)
Posted By: Christine Govenor
Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 10:44PM
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