"The cities of the Roman Empire served as centers of Greco-Roman civilization, which spread to the furthest reaches of the Mediterranean."

Civilization entered English in the middle of the 18th century. That meant "to bring out actions and processes of barbaric or uneducated countries". In this age of imperialist exploration it is widely believed that people in the undeveloped areas strongly need savage and cultural influence. As a political scientist and historian Anthony Pagden wrote in the 1988 paper, the social theory of the 18th century considered civilization "the best condition for all human beings." He continues to say, "Only civilized people can know what civilization is," and points out the implicit elitism of this concept. As the imperialism flourished in the 19th century, the meaning of civilization became more and more general, but today it is considered to be narrow unless it is used in a historical context.

When a country, culture, or group of people is brought to a developed country that was enlightened from the darkness of "barbarity", it becomes civilization. This feeling appeared almost simultaneously, but there was no imperialism in the original meaning of the word. When used with modifiers, it means civilization in a particular region (European civilization, French civilization), human (Maya civilization) or age (contemporary civilization).

In the early 19th century, English speaking users began using civilization to represent cities with civilizations or densely populated areas. Since this term also applies to the comfort and convenience associated with densely populated areas, today we use civilization to explain whether or not to camp outdoors without cell phones covering what we left behind I can do it.

"We allow our civilization to transcend our culture; we allow our technology to transcend our theology, so we have many problems It is caught in.

"Because the lower individuals of society can not absorb themselves properly due to contact with civilizations, similar contact with a race that is too strong to do illness or physical abuse causes" low ethnicity May disappear. - J. A. Hobson Imperialism: Research (1902)

 - Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, Milna Chase Western Civilization: Thought, Politics and Society, Volume 2 (2009)

"The strong power of steam and electricity is promoting continuation of the civilization in the west" - The outpost of Joseph · M · Henning civilization: the era of ethnic, religious and Japan-US relations (2000)

"[A] The good thing that links politeness and civilization depends on the two principles of the gentleman's spirit and the spirit of religion." Meeting of several associations (1790)

"Civilization is unknown, the jungle is familiar to himself and his ancestors and the fears conveyed by his ancestors are tightly embedded in his heart." - Alan New Bold Ramo Civilization : East Legend (1919)

History tells us that today's Europe was not the focus of Greek and Roman imperialists. Even before heading east, the first ruling area of ​​the Greek-Roman Empire was a Mediterranean basin including Africa and the Asian continent in addition to Europe. The influence of Hellenistic civilization and the traces of Roman art and architecture are seen throughout Asia and Africa. Patel ignored the interesting fact that Napoleon and Hitler's military ambitions split Europe instead of unifying Europe. In addition, the integration of Europe that we recently call the European Union (EU) is not the only result of political control and mandatory armed invasion. It has a deep historical root in the economic survival of Europe affected by the war. The author also absolutely ignores the economic aspects of the major management of European integration like a single market.

The European Union has not officially announced the revival of the Roman Empire, but there are important cultural, geographical and historical claims. Greek and Roman cultures spread throughout Europe during the Empire era and laid the foundation for European civilization. The Latin Christian world spread, the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, and the existence of the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Catholic Church, the identity of the Romans was never completely lost, but Europe is synonymous with the land of Carolin Gan literature It is because it became. The Christian world of the Renaissance. Since the Greek and Roman cultures were imitated and consciously revived during the Italian Renaissance of the 14th century, this Christian's identity lost its emphasis on religion and focused on common language, historical and cultural origin We began to hit, changed to the identity of Europe.