What is "The Region"

Ok to briefly digress from my working theory on Romanticized colonialism:
We need to backtrack and talk about the Region and what this thing called the "Middle East" is.
Let's skip the idea of what a region is and let's charge into the question, "What is the Middle East"

The Middle East as a phrase comes to us from the British Empire. This area was East of London but not as far east as India. This area has a historic connection. The Arab conquest which spread a religion and a culture across the modern Middle East created the Middle East. Areas on the fringe of this empire are at times considered either in the Middle East or are in another region at different times. But the Core states of this region are linked because of their shared past. The areas which the Arab empire stretched to are in the present day Middle East. The exceptions to this are areas like southern Spain, which has been brought back into the European fold.

This area was untied through religion and culture. However, they are not exactly the same. Arabs are not the only ones in the region and not all of the Middle East is based on Arab culture. There has been a mix of cultures that have spread across this region thanks to the Persians, the Turks, and the Mongolians.

Besides a shared history this region exists as the Middle East mainly because of the British. During colonialism and the era of the British Empire, the powers of the western world lumped this region together. Even though there are several differences between a Moroccan Berber and a Persian Muslim in Iran. It was the West through both terminology and foreign affairs who created the Middle East.

The Middle East is such because of both the 19^th century British and the 7^th century Arabs.