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13 Cards in this Set
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What are the 3 worlds of this continent?
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1) Dry world
2) Arab world 3) Islamic world |
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What is the defining cultural factor almost everywhere in this region?
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Islamic faith
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Where was the origin of the Islamic faith? By who? How was it diffused?
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Arabia
Mohammed largely by conquest |
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What is the fertile crescent? Where is the crescent?
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The hearth of early civilization. Hydraulic civilization
Upper Nile river, Egypt. Mesopotamia |
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What are the 3 mono theistic faiths? Where are these faiths found in the region?
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Islam (Arabia)
Judaism (Israel) Christianity (E Mediterranean) |
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What determines the population distribution? What are the 3 most populated areas?
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Availability of water = huge factor.
1) Nile river 2) Turkey to Iran 3) Eastern Mediterranean coast |
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What is the barrier between Sahara desert and ocean?
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Atlas mountains
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What is the dominant Arab country? Why?
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Egypt
The Nile river |
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What reserve is this region rich in? What country in particular?
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Oil
65% of worlds reserves Saudi Arabia |
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What are the 2 oldest literate civilizations?
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1) Mesopotamia -sumerians
2) Egypt |
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Explain the emergence of Islam. Where did it expand to? Who was mainly responsible?
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Source area, Mecca (holy city) in Arabia
Lead by Mohammed = Muslim figure Caliphate = territorial expansion Middle East, North Africa & Iberian peninsula |
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The Ottoman empire was led by who? What caused the fall of the empire?
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Suleyman the Magnificent
Gradually died when Suleyman died. Empire fell when Turkey became an empire after WW1 |
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What happened to the continent after WW1? (2)
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1) Colonization and domination by Europe. Short lived
2) Migration of the Jews to Palestine |
