GEO Ch.7 Southwest Asia and North Africa Facts

What is this region also regularly called?

This is a region that witnesses many cultural innovations that subsequently diffuse to other parts of the world.

This aspect of Islam that advocates return to more traditional practices, calls for a merger of civil and religious authority, and challenges encroachment of global popular culture.

Which organization is key to the Middle East's industrial wealth?

What are some environmental problems faced by the Middle East?

This is the interplay of water resource issues and politics

(“West Island”): Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia;dominated by the Atlas Mountains..this region is called...

Eastern Mediterranean region of SW Asia has mountains and highlands

This includes the peninsula of Turkey(“Asia Minor”) and is a geologically active plateau

This is the region in Iraq, between Tigris and Euphrates rivers

What type of climate region do the Atlas Mountains and Levant coastline have?

What is the term for the number of people per unit of arable (farmable) land?

The Middle East has one of the highest physiological densities in the world...right...?

The moister areas of the Atlas mountains and coastal regions are called...

How many Egyptians live within 10 miles of the Nile river?

This is when plants and animals are selectively bred for desirable characteristics..

This is an ecologically diverse zone from Levant through the fertile hill country of Northern Syria to Iraq

Traditional form of subsistence agriculture that depends on seasonal movement of livestock

Seasonal movement of livestock from winter to summer pastures

These are areas where high groundwater or deep-water wells provide reliable moisture

This type of river supports irrigation and comes from a humid area to flow into a dry area that otherwise lacks streams

This is a collectively worked settlement that produces grain, vegetable,& orchard crops; irrigated by the Jordan River and feeder canals Oases agriculture

What are some crops in the Middle East

Where were the earliest cities of the Middle East located?

When did trade centers in the middle east rise?

This is the original urban core of a traditional Islamic city and has a central mosque with a bazaar.

How many of Saudi Arabia's workers are foreign?

What are some causes of women having fewer children in the region

Which two religions trace their roots to the eastern meditteranean

What is monotheism?

What does Islam mean?

Whom did the Shiite Muslims favor passing power to?

Whom did the Sunni favor passing power to?

What are most muslims?

What is a theocracy?

What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

What is Sufism?

What is Druze?

What is Caliphate?

This was the vast empire of Turks which included much of the Middle East

Old Jerusalem includes sacred sites for:

These are Semite languages

What languages are spoken in the region

European colonialism came early on to the region
True False

The global economy has no impact on Middle East cultural values
True False

Political boundaries were never set by colonial powers once the middle east was imperialised
True False

European banks had influence on Egyptian economy
True False

The British were instrumental in establishing Saudi Arabia
True False

By when were most countries in the middle east independent?

When did Europeans begin to withdraw their hold on the middle east

When was Israel created?

What were the dates of the 3 Israeli wars?

Which year was the war when Israel gained the most land?

These are the Palestinian uprisings that protest Jewish settlements, and when did they happen?