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Title: Unit 4 Social, Economic, and Political Development of the Middle East


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Unit 4 --Social, Economic, and Political
Development of the Middle East
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Essential Questions
  • What are the key conflicts in the region, and
    what are the contributing factors?
  • What attempts have been made toward conflict
    resolution in the Middle East?
  • How will the conflicts in the Middle East
    continue to shape the future?

3
Middle East of what? What is the Middle East?
Europe
Near East
Middle East
Far East
a.k.a. Southwest Asia, to be geographically
correct!
4
Regional Overview -- Whats it like there?
5
The Middle East as Cultural Hearth
  • A Cultural Hearth is an ancient or original
    starting place for many cultural traits and ideas
    . . .
  • So what makes the Middle East a cultural hearth?

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What Important Concepts Began in the Middle East
and Spread?
  • Agriculture
  • Cities
  • Writing
  • Coined Money
  • The Wheel
  • Iron/Steel
  • 3 World Religions

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Once upon a time . . . Abraham/ Ibrahim (4000
years ago) . . .
Speaking of 3 world religions . . .
  • Wife (Sarah) doesnt bear heir . . .
  • Concubine (Hagar) does bear heir (Ishmael) . . .
  • Sarah does finally bear heir (Isaac) . . .
  • Hagar and Ismael are sent away and become the
    Arab people. . .
  • One Arab is Muhammad (b. 570AD) . . . He founds
    Islam!
  • Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and their descendants are
    the Jews . . .
  • The Jews feel god/allah promised them the lands
    of Israel . . .
  • One descendant, a Jew named Jesus (b. 1AD),
    founds Christianity!

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The Moral of the Religious Story is . . .
  • Jews, Christians, and Muslims (believers in
    Islam) believe in the same god and Old Testament
    stories, and claim the same land as holy!
  • Judaism is a small religion, since the Jews feel
    they have a special deal with god . . .
    Therefore, little efforts to convert others!
  • Christianity and Islam are 1 and 2 in the world
    in number of followers (more than 1 billion
    each), because they do seek to convert others!
  • Muslims see Jews and Christians as fellow people
    of the book, not as heathens, so no conversion
    necessary!

9
The Holiest Spots . . .
  • For Judaism . . .
  • For Christianity . . .
  • For Islam . . .

10
The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
2
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
4
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Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, and the Dome of
the Rock in . . . Jerusalem!
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Historical Overview of the Region to 1945
  • Controlled by various groups prior to the Romans
    (Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Persians,
    Hittites, Phoenicians, etc.)
  • After Roman control came Byzantine control, Arab
    control, then various Turkish groups (Seljuk,
    then Ottoman until World War I)
  • Britain and France separately controlled much of
    the region from the end of WWI to the end of WWII

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The Roman Empire
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The Ottoman Empire
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Between the World Wars
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Key Recent/Current Conflicts in the Region
  • Lets blame the Ottoman collapse and other
    ancient history for these recent or ongoing
    events since WWII
  • Lebanon-Syria (Civil War/Occupation/Current
    Crisis)
  • Afghanistan (Civil War, Soviet Invasion, Taliban
    Control, Current Conflict)
  • Arab-Israeli (major wars 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973,
    Lebanon-Israel 1982, Intifada 12,
    Lebanon-Israel 2006)
  • Iraq (Iraq-Iran War, Iraq-Kuwait/Desert Storm,
    Current Conflict)
  • Thats all folks!
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