over the next thousand years those Europeans built the most advanced civilization the world has ever seen
They would argue that the Romans absorbed Greek culture when they conquered them, improving their own culture, and when they conquered Israel and created the diaspora, "Judeo-Christian" values took over the empire and created the Europe we admire.
And I will counter that "Judeo-Christian" is a term cooked up by a conference of evangelical and Jewish leaders post WWII as an attempt to counter communism, and has absolutely no historical significance to the development of Western civilization whatsoever.
They would argue that the Romans absorbed Greek culture when they conquered them, improving their own culture, and when they conquered Israel and created the diaspora, "Judeo-Christian" values took over the empire and created the Europe we admire.
And I will counter that "Judeo-Christian" is a term cooked up by a conference of evangelical and Jewish leaders post WWII as an attempt to counter communism, and has absolutely no historical significance to the development of Western civilization whatsoever.