Curated category
Eurocentrism
- Middle EastIn September 1902, a United States naval strategist named Alfred Thayer Mahan published an article titled "The Persian Gulf and International Relations" in…
- OrientalismThe word orient entered the English language as the Middle French orient in the late medieval period. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about conquering many great…
- Near EastIn 1855, a letter to The Times by Thomas Taylor Meadows introduced the phrase Near East to describe Ottoman territories.
- Altaic languagesIn 1730, a Swedish officer named Philip Johan von Strahlenberg published a proposal grouping Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages together.