The Early Medieval period saw the foundations of a new European civilization being laid, and alongside the emergence of new states came new military systems. These were partly the product of, and partly responsible for, new strategies, new tactics and modes of combat , and new attitudes towards warfare. The medieval period was probably more influential in the development of modern Europe than were the distant but generally more admired Classical civilizations of the ancient world. A somewhat blinkered view of the European past, which focuses upon those essentially Mediterranean cultures, has been largely responsible for the concept of a supposedly distinctive 'Western way of warfare' , which many still place in contrast to supposedly 'non-Western' practices. Such distinctions are largely fictitious, but they nevertheless reflect attitudes towards warfare within Western culture. There is a Western self-image of a civilization that fundamentally abhors war, and thus seeks to end it as quickly as possible by seeking a major and deciding confrontation.
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