[GEOG 122] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (45 pages long!)
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Goeg 122 lecture -1 few resources: droughts, desserts, semi-nomadic tribes, But a strategic location on the red sea route to swiss canal- major international route, 10 percent of world cargo moves through this. The major powers uninterested in its regional character, because they saw only the logic of location, a geographic abstraction. immense oil wealth. Colonial boundaries ignoring social geography somalia under defined ethnically, key and christian ethiopia friend of west. Britain in aden, french in djibouti, us in ethiopia ussr offered to train somali army. 1969 coup led to a socialist state there; Somali army one of the strongest in africa. Drought and 1974 coup in ethiopia, disposing pro-western emperor and a marxist faction prevailed. instability and regional insurgencies, including ethnic somalis in. Ogden. in 1977 ethiopia and somalia at war. Later us kicked out of ethiopia, ussr moves in, ussr booted out of somalia, us moves in.
