This is a big idea book that will change how you think about the most basic
development of our world today. All too often, we take longstaning views
of history as "settled fact." This holds especially true with regard to
the development of modern civil society and Western Civilization. Our
ideas actually came from the East, along a Judeo- Christian-Greek axis
and were vigorously oppossed by Imperial Rome. This book endeavors to
trace the political and military alliances that protected these ideas
until the Renaissance and Enlightenment took hold. The thread starts out
with the invasion of Rome by German tribes. Those tribes, certain Islamic
leaders, and a host of Christian Kings allied with Jews, all on
the side of what we call today "civil society."