Articles on west Asian countries emphasis on political unrest

Western Asia was in use as a geographical term in the early 19th century even before Near East became current as a geopolitical concept. In the context of the history of classical antiquity Western Asia could mean the part of Asia known in classical antiquity as opposed to the reaches of interior Asia i.e. Scythia and Eastern Asia the easternmost reaches of geographical knowledge in classical authors i.e. Transoxania and India In the 20th century Western Asia was used to denote a rough geographical era in the fields of archaeology and ancient history especially as a shorthand for the Fertile Crescent excluding Ancient Egypt for the purposes of comparing the early civilizations of Egypt and the former.Therefore in important parts of this book we are looking at the state of unrest in the West Asia region from the Caucasus to North Africa.