CITY COLLEGE NORTH AFRICA & SOUTHWEST ASIA

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1 CITY COLLEGE NORTH AFRICA & SOUTHWEST ASIA

2 PIVOTAL LOCATION

3 EARLY CULTURE HEARTHS

4 MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL QUALITIES OF THE REALM Physical Aridity Oil Cultural Culture Hearths World Religions Conflict

5 MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL QUALITIES OF THE REALM (cont) Population Discontinuous clusters around infrequent water sources Regional Imbalances Oil and Non-oil states ( haves versus have-nots ) Political Geography Fragmented due to colonial experience

6 NAMING THE REALM Popular Labels Dry World Arab World Islamic World Middle East

7 THE DRY WORLD? Dry/arid climate prevails throughout the realm Exceptions: Peripheral regions of Turkey Northwestern section of Iran Oases Several great river valleys

8 ANNUAL PRECIPITATION

9 MITZPE-RAMON E.J. PALKA

10 NEGEV DESERT E.J. PALKA

11 WATER - A RENEWABLE OR FINITE RESOURCE? Water is critical for life, food production, and industrial processes. 9 out of 14 Southwest Asian states face water-short conditions (the most concentrated region of scarcity in the world). The North African states all have rates of natural increase above 1.5%, increasing the stress on water sources.

12 ISRAEL-SYRIA BORDER E.J. PALKA

13 POPULATION DISTRIBUTION The majority of the population in this realm lives not in the dry arid regions, but around water resources. - The Nile - Mediterranean Sea - Euphrates and Tigris Basin (Hydraulic Civilization) - Lower mountain slopes of Iran, south of the Caspian Sea

14 POPULATION DISTRIBUTION

15 AN ARAB REALM? Relates to language as a cultural feature of this realm Arabic is the dominant language in 16 States of the realm. In Non-Arab States, indigenous languages dominate. - Turkey - Turkish - Iran - Farsi - Israel - Hebrew - Niger - French

16 Turks Azerbijianis Kurds Arabs Persians Bakhtiari Lur

17 ISLAMIC REALM? Muhammad ( AD) Five Pillars Of Faith Repeated Expressions Of Creed Frequent Prayer Month Of Daytime Fasting Alms-giving Pilgrimage To Mecca Other Key Tenants Sunnis vs Shi ites

18 DOME OF THE ROCK E.J. PALKA

19 THE WESTERN WALL E.J. PALKA

20 CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY E.J. PALKA

21 INSIDE THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY E.J. PALKA

22 THE STAGE FOR ISLAM

23 SPATIAL DIFFUSION The process by which a concept, practice, or substance spreads from its point of origin to new territories Two types -- Relocation diffusion -- Expansion diffusion

24 RELOCATION DIFFUSION Sequential diffusion is a process in which items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas & relocate to new areas. The most common form of relocation diffusion involves the spreading of innovations by a migrating population.

25 RELOCATION DIFFUSION

26 RELOCATION DIFFUSION

27 EXPANSION DIFFUSION The spreading of an innovation or idea through a fixed population in such a way that the number of those adopting grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanded area of dissemination Two types -- Contagious Expansion -- Hierarchical Expansion

28 CONTAGIOUS EXPANSION The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person Analogous to the communication of a contagious disease

29 CONTAGIOUS EXPANSION

30 CONTAGIOUS EXPANSION

31 CONTAGIOUS EXPANSION

32 OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESERVES

33 REGIONS OF THE REALM

34 EGYPT AND THE LOWER NILE BASIN

35 EGYPT AND THE LOWER NILE BASIN CONTINUOUS CIVILIZATION > 5,000 YEARS 95% OF EGYPT S 76.4 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE WITHIN 12 MILES (20 KMS) OF THE NILE BASIN IRRIGATION PERENNIAL IRRIGATION - MID 1800s ASWAN HIGH DAM INCREASED AGRICULTURAL LAND BY 50% PROVIDES 40% OF ELECTRICITY

36 EGYPT STRATEGIC SITUATION CAIRO

37 THE MAGHREB AND ITS NEIGHBORS

38 THE MAGHREB AND ITS NEIGHBORS THE MAGHREB - DOMINATED BY THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS MOROCCO - LAST OF THE NORTH AFRICAN KINGDOMS ALGERIA - A SECULAR REPUBLIC WITH RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL PROBLEMS TUNISIA - SMALLEST AND MOST WESTERNIZED OF THE MAGHREBS LIBYA - OIL RICH DESERT STATE WITH A COASTAL ORIENTATION

39 THE MAGHREB AND ITS NEIGHBORS ATLAS MOUNTAINS - FERTILE COASTLINE - RAIN SHADOW EFFECT FRENCH COLONIALISM OIL-RICH LIBYA

40 AFRICAN TRANSITION ZONE

41 AFRICAN TRANSITION ZONE SAHEL - ARABIC WORD FOR BORDER OR MARGIN A ZONE WHERE PEOPLE ARE ETHNICALLY AFRICAN BUT CULTURALLY ARAB DESERTIFICATION - PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM CULTURAL AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY NORTH VERSUS SOUTH - MUSLIM VERSUS NON-MUSLIM PATTERNS

42 AFRICAN TRANSITION ZONE CULTURAL CONFLICT MUSLIM - CHRISTIAN NOMADISM ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

43 MIDDLE EAST

44 THE MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE OF THE ISLAMIC REALM IRAQ, SYRIA, JORDAN, ISRAEL, LEBANON CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN CHRISTIANS, JEWS, AND MUSLIMS SUNNI - SHI ITE CONFLICT (WITHIN IRAQ AND THROUGHOUT THE REGION) A FUTURE KURDISTAN?

45 FERTILE CRESCENT CULTURE HEARTH OIL CULTURAL CONFLICT THE MIDDLE EAST

46 IRAQ

47 ISRAE L

48 THE WEST BANK

49 STRUGGLE FOR JERUSALEM HOLY TO JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS JUDAISM: CAPITAL OF JEWISH KINGDOM 3000 YEARS BP; FAITH TOOK FORM IN THE FIRST TEMPLE-DESTROYED BY BABYLONIANS IN 586 BC; REBUILT AS SECOND TEMPLE-DESTROYED BY ROMANS IN AD 70 ISLAM: PROPHET MUHAMMAD ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN 7TH CENTURY AD CHRISTIANITY: BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST; CRUXIFICTION & ASCENT

50 JERUSALEM

51 STRUGGLE FOR JERUSALEM (CONTINUED) UNITED NATIONS DID NOT INCLUDE JERUSALEM AS PART OF ISRAEL PALESTINE PARTITION RESOLUTION DESIGNATED JERUSALEM AS AN OPEN CITY WAR AND TRANSFER OF ISRAELI GOVERNMENT FROM TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM WAR AND AFTERMATH CHANGED BOUNDARIES AGAIN JERUSALEM REAFFIRMED AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL

52 CULTURAL DIVERSITY E. J. PALKA E. J. PALKA

53 E. J. PALKA E. J. PALKA

54 ARABIAN PENINSULA

55 ARABIAN PENINSULA SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, QATAR, UAE, OMAN, YEMEM OIL, DESERT, AND STRATEGIC LOCATION SAUDI ARABIA MILLION PEOPLE WITH THE WORLD S GREATEST OIL RESERVES

56 THE EMPIRE STATES TURKEY AND IRAN (CYPRUS AND AZERBAIJAN ON THE PERIPHERY) IMPERIAL HERITAGE ARAB ETHNICITY GIVES WAY BUT ISLAMIC CULTURE CONTINUES HIGH MOUNTAINS AND PLATEAUS VS ROCKY AND SANDY DESERT

57 THE EMPIRE STATES

58 TURKEY TURKISH OTTOMAN EMPIRE NOMADIC PEOPLES FROM THE STEPPES AND FORESTS OF SIBERIA 6TH CENTURY- ESTABLISHED AN EMPIRE STRETCHING FROM MONGOLIA TO THE BLACK SEA SPREAD THE TURKIC LANGUAGE FAR AND WIDE DECLINED IN EARLY 1900s MUSTAFA KEMAL (ATATURK) FATHER OF MODERN TURKEY MOVED CAPITAL FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO ANKARA WESTERNIZED TURKEY AND BROKE FREE FROM THE ARAB WORLD

59

60 TURKEY(CONTINUED) WESTERNIZATION ISLAM LOST OFFICIAL STATUS ROMAN ALPHABET REPLACED ARABIC ISLAMIC LAW REPLACED BY WESTERN CODE MONOGAMY BECAME LAW WOMEN GAINED RIGHTS TURKEY SEPARATED FROM ARAB WORLD KURDISH POPULATION 14 MILLION- 1/5 OF TURKEY S 73.3 MILLION SOUTHEAST TURKEY (IRAQ) - 3,000 BP; RECENTLY- ISTANBUL ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM

61 I S T A N B U L

62 IRAN A COUNTRY OF MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS POPULATION OF 67 MILLION 66% URBANIZED NOMADISM OIL RESERVES WAR WITH IRAQ CULTURAL TIES WITH IRAQ,

63 CHARACTERISTICS OF TURKESTAN MOUNTAINS DESERTS OIL, COTTON PASTORALISM DIPLOMATIC REALIGNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

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