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In the sense of building a united Europe of one whole the Romans were bit players compared to Christendom. How can this even be contested? What sense of a common European feeling existed between, say, Hungarians and Scandinavians before they were Christianized? The concept of Europe itself didn't come into common use until the 15th century. The Roman Empire wasn't even strictly European but a conglomerate of Europeans, Asians, and North Africans.
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