ABSTRACT
West Asia is a vast geographic territory that extends from the Bosphorus to the Iranian plateau, across the Arabian peninsula, down to the Sinai, and up to the Southern Caucasus. Its sociocultural history encompasses diverse peoples and groups, each with uid settlement and impact boundaries over their respective oruits. Although cultures and empires from this region have emerged and declined, connectivity networks remain an important facet of their successful dissemination of ideas, instructions, individuals, and inuence. These networks and their impacts upon the human experience extend from as early as the spread of agricultural techniques out of the Fertile Crescent to today’s development of the Saadiyat Cultural District in Abu Dhabi. They can be characterized at various times as globalization.
