Apple

An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). Apple trees are
cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. The tree originated
in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found today. Apples have been grown
for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and were brought to North America by European
colonists. Apples have religious and mythological significance in many cultures, including Norse,
Greek and European Christian tradition.

Historically, the concept of a "Central Asia" traces its origins from many sources. The earliest
popularized concept was that of Inner Asia, which is conceptualized as the lands that in between the
settled civilizations of China, Persia, Russia, and India and thus at the crossroad of cultures, with an
overarching nomadic heritage and the legacy of the silk road, in contrast to the settled civilizations
of China or Persia. While Inner Asia focuses on its contrast with China, and includes the regions of
Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang as part of its core regions, another conceptualization of "Central Asia"
was introduced in 1843 by the geographer Alexander von Humboldt, which focuses on the Western,
Islamic portion of the Eurasian region in contrast with Persia. The borders of Historically built
political geography and geoculture are two significant parameters widely used in the scholarly
literature about the definitions of the Central Asia