The start of Western Civilization can be traced back to the East where people in Mesopotamia and Egypt developed organized societies and created the ideas and institutions that we connect to civilization. Greeks and Romans also played a big role in the development and were fed and influenced by these older societies in the East. Around 3000 B.C., people in Mesopotamia and Egypt began to develop cities and deal with the problems of states. In order to deal with the problems they developed writing to keep records which then created text. Our memory of humans began with these two civilizations. Many things lead up to the creation of the dynamic western culture, a few of those being religion in egypt, the fall of rome, the creation of new european …show more content…
New people began to arrive in Asia Minor and Anatolia, known as the Indo Europeans, which created conflict with the Egyptians. These small states did not last. Since the first city states appeared in the East around 3000 BC there had been an ongoing movement toward the creation of larger territorial states with stronger government systems. Between 1000 and 500 bc the assyrians, chaldeans and persians all created empires that covered large areas. Even larger than these was the empire of the great kings of persia. Persian rule was tolerant and efficient, people under their rule were able to keep their religions and methods of trade. There is no doubt as to why many easter people showed their thanks for being subjects of the great kings. The hebrews were a part of these groups, they did not create an empire and were dominated by the assyrians. They still managed to leave a spiritual legacy that influenced much of the later development of Western Civilization. The development of Hebrew monotheism created in Judaism was one of the world's greatest religions; it influenced both christianity and islam. When we speak of Judaeo Christian heritage in western civ we talk about the concept of monotheism and the ideas of law, morality and social justice that played a huge part in western …show more content…
the first medieval civilization that arose out of the collapse of the western roman empire was formed by the germans, the culture of the greco romans and the christian church. As a result a new group of germanic kingdoms emerged and fused roman and germanic elements to create a new society. The christian church played a major role in the growth of this new civilization. It developed an organized government under the pope, and developed monks and nuns that converted the people in europe to christianity. The creation of this western empire marked the shift of power from the south to the north, Europe then emerged as the focus and center point of western