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North africa & the middle east: geography of religion and urban geography. The middle east have certain characteristics: desert environments, the sahara, the arabian desert, the syrian desert multiple characteristics in deserts (not just sand), there are oasis and salt deserts. There are river valleys (nile, jordan, mesopotamian) there are four language families: hemito semitic: arabic and hebrew, altaic: comes from syberia, nomadic, settled in turkey. Hungarians are also altaic: indo european, nile saharan. No arabic cultures or foods, its arab food and arab culture. Atenism changed artwork, pretty much everything in egypt (he physically looked off, as well as the queen). Once they died the successor got rid of atensim. Another early starting is: ((founded by akhenaten (egyptian pharaoh) & nefertiti (akenaten"s queen)) Sacred book: the avesto place of worship fire temple. Many zoroastrianisms with the extent of the persian empire. Christianity: also began in middle east began with jewish converts.
