Why have so many religions been started in the middle east?

[katiras]

Is the Middle East spirtually superior than rest of the world? What is your theory?
The follow paragraph came out of wikipedia:

"The Middle East lies at the juncture of Eurasia and Africa and of the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. It is the birthplace and spiritual center of the Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Yezidi, and in Iran, Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and the Bahá'í Faith. Throughout its history the Middle East has been a major center of world affairs; a strategically, economically, politically, culturally, and religiously sensitive area."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East


Asia has also had a major influence on religion...Hindu, buddism.

Some people lump Asia and the Middle East together. If that is true then almost all religions currently in practice today would have started on the Asian continent.
Asia is the world's most populous and largest continent, with millions of different peoples following a wide variety of different religions. "Asia was the birthplace of most of the world's mainstream religions including Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as many other beliefs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Asia

 

[israel_identity]

wikipedia:... any one can write articles here. On TV this site was barred as a reference on multiple universities..
Being on a web site neither confirms or denies the validity.. but to the assertion

You might want to look to the Americas of all the endless religons of the native Americans.. north america, south America.. the religons of China, Japan

Look to Europe at the druids and the pagan religons of the northmen
The Eskimos.. the Aboriginies.. gee if you looked up the religions of the world, they have existed since events have been recorded.

People in the Polynesian Islands have many gods they exist every where