Base your answer to question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. 4704 The "Middle East" is not a term Middle Easterners gave them, but a British term borne of a colonial, European perspective. The term's origins are seeped [steeped] in controversy for having originally been a European imposition of geographic perspective according to European spheres of influence. East from where? From London. Why “Middle"? Because it was half-way between the United Kingdom and India, the Far East... – Pierre Tristam, “What is the Middle East?" Which term is most closely associated with the main idea of this passage? 1. interdependence 2. pacifism containment 4. ethnocentrism

Base your answer to question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. 4704 The "Middle East" is not a term Middle Easterners gave them, but a British term borne of a colonial, European perspective. The term's origins are seeped [steeped] in controversy for having originally been a European imposition of geographic perspective according to European spheres of influence. East from where? From London. Why “Middle"? Because it was half-way between the United Kingdom and India, the Far East... – Pierre Tristam, “What is the Middle East?" Which term is most closely associated with the main idea of this passage? 1. interdependence 2. pacifism containment 4. ethnocentrism