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.

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, improve 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.