Preface.
There are so many books on European history that many people are deterred. I'm not a history professional, but I'm a professional tour guide, and I'm just talking about Europe in my mind as a hobbyist.
I am very fortunate to have traveled back and forth to Europe all year round, so I can learn and see what I have learned. The so-called "read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles" is a wise saying. But before you go to Europe, you must know a little bit about the local history and culture so that you can live up to the trip.
Everyone knows the origins of the world's great civilizations to date. Ancient civilizations all originated from the Great River, the so-called Great River Civilization. The oldest civilization to date is the civilization of the Two Rivers Valley, also known as the Mepotamian civilization, which originated in the Middle East along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The second is the civilization of ancient Egypt that originated from the Nile, the third is the civilization of ancient India that originated in the Ganges River Basin, and the last one is our Chinese civilization that originated in the Yellow River Valley. This is what we often call the four ancient civilizations, ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt, ancient India and China. A few days ago, my daughter asked me why those three are called Gu, but we in China don't say that. I said: Because our Chinese civilization is the only one among these four ancient civilizations that has no cultural breaks. This is what we are most proud of.
But for European historians, they found that the origin of European culture and the civilization we are talking about are not the same, so European scholars put forward the theory of division of civilization by region, and the source of European civilization originated in the Aegean Sea, so call her **Qinhai civilization.
This is where the history of Europe began, so let's take a look at it as I follow in my footsteps.