When was the apex of European culture?

>>1224935
define "european"

>>1224935
Your pic answers your question. Either that or the Roman Empire.

>>1224941
Of or pertaining to the European continent

The mid to late 19th century.

>>1224944
I've heard it said that Rome was more an extension of middle eastern/pan-Mediterranean culture than "European"

Some say that it began with Charlemagne

>>1224946
Where does the European Continent end? Is Greece European? Is Turkey? What about Russia?

>>1224954

If you exclude any culture that was in some way influenced by a non-European culture you're going to have a very short list.
The Franks were heavily influenced by the Romans, and if the Romans don't count due to "foreign influence" then neither do the Franks.

Especially considering Charlemagne belonged to a middle eastern neo-Jewish cult.

>>1224955
Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles

>>1224974
>defining your terms
good
When did this Europe have the greatest share of the world's economy, when the most wealth was concentrated within its borders? That period should be considered the "apex", as wealth corresponds proportionally to the investment in sciences and arts that finance culture.

So far, 2016.

>>1224941
>>1224955
Fuck off this thread you relativist c*cks****r. You're the only one pretending that Europe is some highly ambiguos term. No, it does not include North Africa and the Middle East. Now go s*** refugee c***.

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>>1225012
>self-censoring on 4chan
Nigger.

During 1936-1939 in Germany.

>>1224994
Europes doing shit in 2016 though

>>1224955

The Christian or formerly societies west of the ural and north of the mediterrenean

>>1224955
Look at a map you dumb piece of shit.

Just before the reunification of Germany.

Enlightenment