The people of the West defined themselves in contrast with civilizations of the ancient East having their own political life; kings ruled without the regard of the public opinion, and in contrast with Islamic civilization the religion of the Islam were monotheistic and nowadays is, the West had large armies, navies, and bureaucracies loyal to the monarch by the capacity to raise revenues and still later in contrast with less economically developed regions of the world as having monarchies, their military, and their expanding commercial economies became the basic for the extension of European and Western around the world.
