Noticeable signs of early European culture can be found written in Greek Greek. Homer, Hesiod and the poet Kallinos are three of the oldest in Europe. The Romans believed that their city was founded in 753 BC modern archaeologists and historians believe that modern Rome area has been inhabited since at least the 1000-800 BC
From 300 AD Christianity began to spread in Europe. Around 500 AD the Roman Empire collapsed, with France at that time under the rule of the Merovingians, Spain was under Muslim occupation of Berber North Africa and other countries basically attacked by various barbarian groups. At 714, the Carolingian Empire was established and lasted until 911 occupies most of Western Europe. The period after this date is often called the high middle-age and lasted until about 1300 that saw a shift in urbanization across Europe, starting in Western Europe, and led to the university. This was followed by the middle of the endage which ended around 1500, gave birth to a period of European history are usually referred to as the Renaissance or rebirth. The people of this period are found in the classical Greco-Roman culture and Christianity followed by the reforms, with the emergence of a new sect in Europe, mainly Protestant.
Between 1492 – 1972 many European countries ruled or had ruled over most of the known world, with the exception of East Asia and parts of Antarctica. This is called colonialism and discontinued after World War II to support the method, more humane and cost-effective so-called liberal globalism.