With a perspective of economic and social history,Exploration of European Civilizationis a collection of thematic essays in the history of European civilization. The volume combined exploring of theory and case study, which included topics covering the origin and concept of European civilization, development and rights, daily life and custom, conflict and peace. Western civilization is essentially the European civilization in history, however it is different from the classical civilization. The nations in western Europe (mainly Germanic Peoples) definitely absorbed some nutrition from classical civilization, however, the German culture and Christianity developed in the Middle Ages proved to be more important. Western civilization was born in Middle Ages, although the modern western civilization hasn’t come until centuries later,its basic rules was basically set out in the high middle ages.