GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fertile Crescent, Geopolitics, Al-Qaeda
4 Dec 2017
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Major geographical qualities: several of world"s greater ancient civilizations, culture hearths ideas and innovations that changed world, source of three world religions judaism, christianity, and islam (all acknowledge same god) Islam transformed and united area from europe to se asia and russia to e africa. Climate: b climates dominate, populations cluster near water, rivers nile and tigris-euphrates, coastal areas, and desert oases, competition for limited water. The middle east : reflects western bias, near east turkey, middle east egypt, arabia and iraq, far east china and japan. An arab world : people who speak arabic and related languages, mauritania to arabian peninsula, syria, and iraq, non-arab states turkey, iran, and israel. An islamic world : muhammad (571-632 ad, born in arabian peninsula. Islam spread across realm and across the world: europe, africa, asia, india, indonesia, christian minorities, judaism. Chapter six: pervasive impact on cultural geography in the realm, levant area extending from greece eastward along mediterranean coast to n.
