The determinants of the landscape of European civilisation

Virtually all of the classifications of the cultural circles (civilisations) are in agreement in that they distinguish the European (western, western-European, Latin) civilisation. The fundamental tasks of geography of culture include the presentation of the manners of expressing the differences between various cultures in space. Thus, it becomes important to indicate the characteristic features of the aspects of the areas, over which a given civilisation (in this case – the European one) stretches. In the analysis, though, these elements, which, having originated from a concrete civilisation, became in conditions of globalisation the typical elements of other cultural circles, as well, should be rejected. Identification of the distinguishing elements is most easily performed by the comparison (search for differences) with another cultural circle. For this purpose the civilisation of Islam (Muslim civilisation) was selected.