The Orient (China, Japan, India)
The Middle East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia)
The Mediterranean (Rome, Greece, France)
a picture of the middle east:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lazarski/home/Middle-East.gif
I am aware that an Egyptian is not an Arab, just like the Persian is not an Arab, or a Greek is not a Latin, But Egypt had many cultural similarities to Persia and Mesopotamia, and when Islam swept through Egypt, it became a united front with Arabia in research and knowledge.
The Middle East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia)
The Mediterranean (Rome, Greece, France)
a picture of the middle east:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lazarski/home/Middle-East.gif
I am aware that an Egyptian is not an Arab, just like the Persian is not an Arab, or a Greek is not a Latin, But Egypt had many cultural similarities to Persia and Mesopotamia, and when Islam swept through Egypt, it became a united front with Arabia in research and knowledge.