Europe is third largest in population and the sixth largest continent in the whole world .Europe is the center of the west and western democracy.Europe has been centered in the biggest world wars,world war 1 and world war 2.It has been boarded by the Arctic Ocean ,the Atlantic Ocean ,the Mediterranean sea and the Black sea.Both world wars were largely focused upon Europe ,greatly to a decline in Western European dominance in world affairs by the mid 20th Century as the United States and Soviet Union.