One of the negative affects are the way the Middle East was divided so wuickly that ethnic groups were split and were not given there own land. Which is a main issue today with the Kurds, Sunni and...
It affected the middle east mainly by giving Bin Laden and fellow Islamic extremists to callup a jihad or holy war. Let it be known that al-Qaeda extremists are not like regular Muslims hence the...
According to an article in Foreign Affairs (Davison, 1960) the term Middle East was popularized by an American naval officer named Alfred Thayer Mahan in 1902, but it might have been used by the...