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Southwest Asia

1. Find these places to Orient in SWA

   1. Atlas Mountains

   2. Strait of Gibralter

   3. the Levant

   4. Black Sea

   5. Caspian Sea

   6. Zagros Mountains

   7. Arabian Peninsula

   8. Red Sea

   9. Persian Gulf

   10. Nile River

       1. White Nile?

       2. 'Blue Nile?

2. Introducing Region

   1. Term Differentiation

      1. "Arab"

         1. Mohammedeans

         2. Mohametteans

         3. There is no clear defintion

         4. but an Arab would be someone who speaks Arabic, the native language of the Quran

      2. Islam

   2. Fertile Crescent

      1. It's not as fertile cuz of desertification

      2. Early agricultural spot. One of the agri. emergence points.

      3. Tigris and Euphrates create fecund flood plains in between

      4. Ancient Mesopotamia / first written language

         1. Sumerian civilization

         2. 3000s BCE - Cuneiform

         3. Bureaucratic language

         4. Ottoman Empire was the last empire to exist in Mesopotamia

   3. Oil

      1. 7% of population of the world

      2. 69% of the world's oil

         1. 21% of the world's oil is under Saudi Arabia

            1. troll face

         2. Don't forget about North Africa's oil

      3. War

      4. Money

      5. Power

   4. What is Physiological Density?

      1. p. 293

      2. Physiological Density is number of people per space of ariable land

      3. in the desert this is extremely important

      4. Egypt

         1. nearly 70 million - most are within 10 miles of Nile river

      5. More important than Population Density in this area

3. Palestine...Israel

   1. One of the most significant geopolitical situations

   2. History

      1. 1948 British mandate ending over ex-Ottoman Palestine

      2. 1948: Israel declares independence names "homeland"

      3. 1948: Arab-Israeli War

         1. Egypt

         2. Syria

         3. Jordan

         4. Iraq

         5. Saudi Arabia

         6. Lebanon

      4. 1949: War ends, Temporary Borders Drawn

         1. Egypt Takes Gaza

         2. Jordan takes West Bank

      5. 1949: Israel becomes a Member state of the UN

      6. But what happens to the Palestinian people living in Israel?

         1. many get expelled

         2. Palestinians are stateless nations

   3. West Bank / Gaza Strip

      1. West Bank of Dead Sea

         1. Controlled by Israel with a little PA power

      2. Gaza Strip

         1. Palestinian Authority control but surrounded by Israeli military.

      3. Jewish Movement to Israel

         1. After the holocaust many Jews moved there

         2. After the Soviet Union broke up, Jews began emigrating from there

         3. Cheap Labor

            1. Palestinians work in Israel

            2. New ex-soviet labor influx destroys Palestinian labor market

      4. 1993 Peace Agreement

         1. Rabin and Arafat sign peace agreement

            1. Nobel Peace Prize btw

            2. Rahm Emanuel arranged the peace accords

         2. 1995: Rabin assassinated by jewish extremists

            1. by a Palestinian right?

            2. No. An extremist israeli

      5. Military Embargo, "Closure"

         1. Security Wall

         2. How long is the wall?

         3. When was it built?

            1. 2002

            2. 10 years old yay!

      6. Who would take someone elses land like that?

         1. Well, yeah America

            1. Manifest Destiny!

4. Israeli Economics Today: The Global connection

   1. Jerusalem - capital

   2. Tel Aviv - Financial center

   3. What's the story of the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem?

   4. Israeli Trade

      1. Guns-and-Caviar-Index

         1. Guns - Fighter Jets

         2. Caviar - Executive Jets

         3. Meaning, Executives help economy; War depresses

         4. Hmm, since 2003, Both rapidly grew

            1. hmm, how...complex muhaahha

            2. the military-industrial...complex

            3. Why would we want peace if it's not profitable?

   5. Economics

      1. In Isreal right now, Wars and Attacks are up

      2. Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv going up with violence

      3. Decreased peace/stability and profit are co-occurring

   6. Recent Background

      1. High Tech Industry

         1. Dot-com Boom

         2. Security and Surveillance industry grew in reaction to the dot com boom

      2. Compulsory Army Service

      3. Post-9/11 world happened

         1. The Security and Surveillance industry boomed in reaction to 9/11