http://www.clintsmallband.org/east-middle-school/why-is-southwest-asia-called-the-middle-east Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:42:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.clintsmallband.org/east-middle-school/why-is-southwest-asia-called-the-middle-east/comment-page-1#comment-1316 tin m Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:22:59 +0000 http://www.clintsmallband.org/east-middle-school/why-is-southwest-asia-called-the-middle-east#comment-1316 the previous 2 answers are correct , but at the same time the also the way the word Orient was coined into English terminology from French . Originally Orient in the old days meant direction or center path (not East), but consider that a European travels east to get to what was the middle of the map then (900~1000 years ago) so when they coined it in English they couldn't say Middle Center (sounds awkward) , and since the word Orient was synonymous with east , Orient was then taken to mean east in English despite it not being the original old meaning.<br><b>References : </b><br> the previous 2 answers are correct , but at the same time the also the way the word Orient was coined into English terminology from French . Originally Orient in the old days meant direction or center path (not East), but consider that a European travels east to get to what was the middle of the map then (900~1000 years ago) so when they coined it in English they couldn’t say Middle Center (sounds awkward) , and since the word Orient was synonymous with east , Orient was then taken to mean east in English despite it not being the original old meaning.
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]]> http://www.clintsmallband.org/east-middle-school/why-is-southwest-asia-called-the-middle-east/comment-page-1#comment-1315 15...13 and more to go! Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:36:59 +0000 http://www.clintsmallband.org/east-middle-school/why-is-southwest-asia-called-the-middle-east#comment-1315 It is from the west's point of view.<br><b>References : </b><br>Emartiya we 3aribiya It is from the west’s point of view.
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]]> http://www.clintsmallband.org/east-middle-school/why-is-southwest-asia-called-the-middle-east/comment-page-1#comment-1314 yura Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:07:59 +0000 http://www.clintsmallband.org/east-middle-school/why-is-southwest-asia-called-the-middle-east#comment-1314 From the viewpoint of Europeans there is a Far East (China, Japan, etc) and there is a Middle East - it is also east from Europe, but not so far as Far East. So they called it Middle East. Sonds simple and funny but it is true.<br><b>References : </b><br> From the viewpoint of Europeans there is a Far East (China, Japan, etc) and there is a Middle East – it is also east from Europe, but not so far as Far East. So they called it Middle East. Sonds simple and funny but it is true.
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