Interesting! Regarding Canaan (Now Israel) as the center, Chuck Missler pointed out in a video I recently saw that nations to the west of Israel have languages that read left to right. Likewise, nations to the east of Israel have languages that read right to left. I’m not sure how accurate this claim is or if it is 100%, but it does seem interesting.
I also remember a video (not sure by who) that illustrated all the locations where Joshua failed to drive out the Canaanites are the same locations where we have strife today. Gaza certainly comes to mind.
I see his point about direction of written characters in my #4583 above. The western or 'Romance' languages all seem to have evolved as left to right. I don't really know about the eastern written languages. Some languages read top - down; there may be other variations in complex written texts; those vertical 'lines' could proceed right to left or left to right. I have not studied that.
Geographically, Western nations are West of Jerusalem and Middle Eastern and Far Eastern nations are East of Jerusalem. Global maps are laid out with Jerusalem at the center.