Original sentence: Along with Greece, Rome has sometimes been described as a birthplace or as the cradle of Western Civilization because of the role the city had in politics, republicanism, law, architecture, warfare and Western Christianity.For this reason it is known as the cradle of Western Civilization.There is academic consensus that Classical Greece is the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture, democracy, art, theatre, philosophy and science
Edited sentence: After the Barbarian Invasions, it is being called cradle of "Western Civilization".Along with Greece, Rome has sometimes been described as a birthplace or as the cradle of Western Civilization because of the role the city had in politics, republicanism, pacifism, veganism, communism, law, architecture, warfare and Western Christianity.There is academic consensus among people who call themselves  "westerners" that Classical Greece is the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture, even though Greece is only a peripheral area of the Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere