One theory suggests that it is derived from the Greek εὐρύς (eurus), meaning “wide, broad” and ὤψ/ὠπ-/ὀπτ- (ōps/ōp-/opt-), meaning “eye, face, countenance”, hence Eurṓpē, “wide-gazing”, “broad of aspect”. 


From the raising of the Greek Academy, (being the beginning of Europe), going through the period of the Roman Empire, the time of the Vikings, the scientific revolution, the age of enlightenment, the theory of Big Bang, Romanticism, and the Renaissance. All these different levels of civilization were the building blocks of Europe (European culture) as we know it today.


The culture of Europe was a collection of different traditional habits, superstitious ideas, religious concepts and biblical ideas that the Greeks and the Romans picked up from the different nations which they admired and conquered in battle. In Greece and Rome the concepts of these ideas were transformed into Academic discussions.

From the age of enlightenment, until the second world world, Europe had managed to become a culture and a political body of free thinkers, who did not need the biblical ideas of God to explain science and their own existence. 


The ideologies of Charles Darwin, and the theory of Big bang have become the most influencial and accepted concepts which have been used to design the social structure of the today’s Europe beginning from the Age of the scientific revolution. 

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Article taken from www.Ngabo.org/written by Ap Ngabo.