Eurocentrism

The Middle East is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, the Levant, and Turkey.

geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia, and in some definitions parts of the Balkans

obsolete, widely rejected supergroup of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic language families

thumb|300x300px|Jean-Léon Gérôme, [[The Snake Charmer, . Clark Art Institute.]] In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle East, was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and Western literature was influenced by a similar interest in Oriental themes.

thumb|right|300px|A map of the Eastern Hemisphere from [[Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History. "The bright colors denote those countries that are the Subjects of history, previous to the discovery of America".]]

former language family proposal

loose political term introduced in the 2000s

countries with an originally Asian shared culture

poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling

purported rationale or justification for European colonialism

question of the race of ancient Egyptians

Hellenocentrism or Grecocentrism is a worldview centered on Greeks and Greek civilization. The worldview presupposes the idea that Greeks were somehow unique in world history and that Greek civilization essentially emerged from within itself. Nonetheless such premises have been frequently questioned.

1995 book by sociologist James W. Loewen