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Unveiling the Crossroads: The Impact of Geography on the Middle East

Explore key geographic features of the Middle East and their influence on the inhabitants. Understand the significance of water scarcity, oil resources, and environmental factors shaping cultures.

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Unveiling the Crossroads: The Impact of Geography on the Middle East

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  1. The Middle East The Land and the people

  2. Agenda • Problems of the ME Activity • Hwk: Notes. • If Time: Maps • Review Maps • Objective: To identify key geographic features of the Middle East and explain how it affects people that live their.

  3. Save the Last Word • Get into main Groups • Person who is oldest will read 1 statement to the group • Each group member in clockwise order will respond-write down responses • Then original person says their comment on the back • Repeat through four statements • Then person to the left goes. . • When done go to article two!

  4. review • How did water scarcity lead to problems in the Me? • How can oil be a problem for the future of the Me? • How does the environment shape cultures in the Me?

  5. The Middle East The Land and the people

  6. Agenda • Review-8 Cards • Hwk: Notes. • Maps • Review Maps • Objective: To identify key geographic features of the Middle East and explain how it affects people that live there.

  7. review • How did water scarcity lead to problems in the Me? • How can oil be a problem for the future of the Me? • How does the environment shape cultures in the Me?

  8. The Middle East The Land and the people

  9. Agenda • The Crossroad Notes • Hwk: Maps/Notes • Maps • Review Maps • Objective: To identify key geographic features of the Middle East and explain how it affects people that live their.

  10. The CrossRoads • GeographicallySouthwest Asia • LinguisticallyArab World • Religiously Islamic World (poor choice) • What’s in a name? • Europeans invented the term (early 20th century) to describe the region that lies between Europe and the Far East (China, Japan, Korea, etc.)

  11. The CrossRoads • Ideas and inventions have spread across this region (Diffusion) • Strategic Location 1.     vast oil reserves 2.     military and economic significance 3.     vital sea routes • Crossroads of the World • Middle East stands at the connection of three continents (Africa, Europe, Asia) • Connected major trade routes both overland and by sea.

  12. The CrossRoads • Hot—during the summer skies are clear and temps soar over 100 degrees. • Adapt: Farmers must raise crops that require little rain and can stand hot temps. (barley, wheat) • Less than 10% of the land receives enough water to make farming possible. • Characteristics—More than Deserts and Camels • Very diverse but generally….. • Dry—most areas receive less than 8 inches of rain per year

  13. The CrossRoads • Water • Water is the key issue in the Middle East. It determines life! • Water determines where people live, how long they stay, how many can live there, caused wars, forced people to move long distances, and has caused people to prosper or perish • Mountains ringing the region prevent rain clouds from reaching inland.

  14. The CrossRoads • 4 Main Physical Regions • Northern Tier — area through Turkey and Iran mountains and plateaus • Arabian Peninsula — vast plateau in Saudi Arabia, -small population/little water/barren desert, -huge amounts of oil -birth place of Islam (Mecca) • Fertile Crescent — arc shaped region from Med. Sea along Tigris and Euphrates rivers to Persian Gulf. -rich soil, abundant water=major population • Nile River Valley — through Egypt fertile area -natural barriers protection-deserts around it -flooding is predictable and dependable

  15. review • Why does the Middle East have a strategic importance? • What is the key issue in the Middle East and why? • What are the Four Physical Regions of the Middle East?

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