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Title: North Africa/Southwest Asia:Water, Islam, and Oil Physical


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North Africa/Southwest AsiaWater, Islam, and Oil
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  • Physical Features Lowland desert

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  • Steppe Lands

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Atlas, Zagros and Elburz Mountains
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The Nile River Valley
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  • Euphrates River and Tigris Rivers

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  • Sahara Desert, Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

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  • Cultural Hearths Mesopotamia

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  • Islam Originated in the 7th century A.D

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Diffusion of Islam
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  • The Five Pillars of Islam
  • Belief in one God (Allah).
  • Daily Prayer.
  • Obligatory fasting during the daylight hours of
    Ramadan (one month).
  • Almsgiving.
  • Pilgrimage or "hajj" to Islamic holy places.

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Islamic Holy Places Mecca
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Medina
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Jerusalem
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  • Sects of Islam
  • The Sunni about 90 of the world community of
    Islam
  • The Shi'ite Iran and Iraq
  • Shari'a Islamic Religious Law
  • Secular States - Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq,
    Turkey, Tunisia
  • Theocratic States Islam is the accepted religion
    and the state becomes a "defender of the faith."

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  • Ottoman Empire Began in the 13th century
  • European Colonization - began in the 1700s
  • Protectorate vs. Colony

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  • France Algeria, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  • Great Britain Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, and
    Palestine.
  • Italy Libya

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  • Population Patterns
  • Population 400 million doubling by 2030.
  • Fertility Rates 3 4
  • About 40 of the population are 15 or younger.

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  • Migration
  • Interregional Migration
  • In-migration By 1990 about 70 of the Arabian
    Peninsula's labor force were immigrants.
  • Migration to and from Israel
  • Rural to Urban Migration - 60 live in urban
    areas. .

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