Original sentence: The Middle East is considered by many as the birth place of human civilization.The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Israel, the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman.This is the region that  gave us the world's major monothiestic religions
Edited sentence: Middle Eastern history spans history itself.The Middle East is the territory that comprises todays Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Israel, the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman.This is the region around which the ancient world revolved, which formed what could be termed universal human culture, and which gave us the world's major monothiestic religions.This region is considered by many as the birth place of humanity and the foundation of human civilization