# West And East

If you use this dichotomy, the middle would be India and Central
Asia. Instead of somewhere like Greece. That's just a Franco
subjectivity.



The boundary of the Hellenistic world was India. It's Indo-European
after all. That still held in middle age. Greek philosophy heavily
influenced Islamic philosophy. But it didn't go farther than India.
There are still things like Unani medicine in India too. Toward
East, India influenced with things like Buddhism.

Central Asia influenced both. Like Huns or Turks.

But there was almost no direct connection between West and East
surpassing this boundary. For example there was no direct connection
between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Siam. The Himalayas
also contributed to that. Though there was the Silk Road.



However this dichotomy still oversimplifies. It cannot properly
categorise cultures like Native Americans, Sub-Saharan Africans,
the Peoples of Oceania.