Historian Claude Delmas takes the saying that European civilization is the heritage of the Greeks, Romans, and Christians as an introduction to his book on the history of European civilization based on the sides of this triangle. He adds that European civilization developed within the moral frameworks of these three powers, which made Europe a pure idea. It is not intended to deny the value of Immediate motives in ancient times, but being satisfied with them is equivalent to neglecting many basic aspects For the issue, such as the great adventures of the Middle Ages, the technical and intellectual revolutions of the sixteenth century, the revolutions that prepared the modern eras, the role of the bourgeoisie and the middle classes, the emergence of the industrial proletariat, etc. It is in his book "The History of European Civilization," which was translated into Arabic by Professor Colette Habib, and she added valuable footnotes that explained to the Arab reader many terms and concepts that the reader reading the book may not have access to.