What is the Middle East?

The middle east is a land bridge between Europe and Africa. It consists of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Oman,Egypt, Turkey, and Afghanistan. The main ethnicity is Arabian and the main religion is Islam. A majoirty This area is the main center of conflict for many reasons. It is home to many religion's holy land, where the religion originated. It is an also a source of conflict because of its geographic placement. It is between Africa and Europe, basically alternate universes. Being in between two countries has many advantages of updating ideas but it also have negative aspects like a clash of ideas. The region due to its religious diversity has many extremist groups to promote their religion or their duties. Today it is a major world conflicts partially just due to its reputation as being a "bad" country in the past. Many problems originate from alliances between foreign countries and a countries goals. For instance Iran wants to destroy Israel but that would been the destruction of many religions. If any one waged war with each other and broke the growing tension then we would be obligated to fight in a war. This is true for many other countries as well. The Middle East is also a center of trading which includes a product that the entire world needs, oil. Holding oil gives you the right to change prices that clearly, as we have seen in our own community gas stations, affects everyone.