A fresh and unexpected look at history! critics enthusiastically write about Roger Osborne's book Civilization. Humanity views modern Western civilization as a legacy of antiquity and early Christianity, the Renaissance and Enlightenment. But is it? Is there even a connection between historical eras? Can Western civilization be considered a single historical chain, the links of which are connected by the idea of ​ ​ progressive development? Here are just a few of the questions Roger Osborne answers in his original research.