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The '''Middle East''', or West Asia and Egypt, is an area of land and group of countries in [[Southwest Asia]] and [[North Africa]]. Today, people usually call these countries "Middle Eastern" since they are in the Eastern [[Mediterranean]] or west of [[Central Asia]].<br />
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* [[Bahrain]]<br />
* [[Cyprus]]<br />
* [[Egypt]]<br />
* [[Iran]]<br />
* [[Iraq]]<br />
* [[Israel]]<br />
* [[Jordan]]<br />
* [[Kuwait]]<br />
* [[Lebanon]]<br />
* [[Oman]]<br />
* [[Palestine]]<br />
* [[Qatar]]<br />
* [[Saudi Arabia]]<br />
* [[Syria]]<br />
* [[Turkey]]<br />
* [[United Arab Emirates]]<br />
* [[Yemen]]<br />
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Sometimes, people also include countries in North Africa and in South-central Asia as part of a [[Greater Middle East]].<br />
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[[Ancient history|Ancient]] [[civilization]]s began in the [[Fertile Crescent]] in the Middle East. These were [[Sumer]], [[Babylonia]] and [[Assyria]] in the area called [[Mesopotamia]], and [[Ancient Egypt]]. The three [[Abrahamic religion]]s that believe in [[Monotheism|one God]] also came from the Middle East. [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]] began in ancient Israel and [[Islam]] began in [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]].<br />
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Today, the Middle East is very important because much of the [[petroleum]] that other countries use comes from here. There are also many arguments and wars, such as the conflict between [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] and [[Shia Islam|Shia]], the [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict]], and the [[Syrian civil war]].<br />
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* [[Central Asia]]<br />
* [[East Asia]]<br />
* [[South Asia]]<br />
* [[Southeast Asia]]<br />
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