The warld's earliestceevilizations developit in Wastren Asie. For maist o the last three millennia, the region haes been unitit unner ane or twa powerful states; ilka ane succeeding the last, an at times, eastren an wastren based polities. The main states in this regaird war theAssirie Empire, theBabylonie Empire, theAchaemenid Empire, theSeleucid Empire, theParthian Empire, theRoman Empire, theSassanid Empire, theByzantine Empire, theUmayyad Caliphate, theAbbasid Caliphate, theSafavid Empire, an theOttoman Empire.
Wastren Asie is the birthplace oIslam,Christianity,Judaism, an ithermonotheistic releegions.