... the maps, which Greeks drew up, there were three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. However, the border between Europe and Asia went along the River Don and the Sea of Azov (Delanty cited in McCormic, 2005, p.29). Later on, at the turn of the fifth and fourth century BC on the map appeared a new powerful state-The Roman Empire. Despite the fact its range encompassed not only terrains of the nowadays-European countries, but also the North Africa and Middle East, it was still called a European empire. The nowadays Europe is considered to be born in the Early Middle Ages having Christianity as its base, Rome as a capital and Latin as an official language. Probably that was the time, when the states first felt the need to unify in order to be an equivalent power for Islamic Asia, which led an expansionist policy. The Arabic army was stopped only ...

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