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Find these places
to Orient in SWA
- Atlas Mountains
- Strait of Gibralter
- the Levant
- Black Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Zagros Mountains
- Arabian Peninsula
- Red Sea
- Persian Gulf
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Nile River
- White Nile?
- 'Blue Nile?
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Introducing Region
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Term Differentiation
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"Arab"
- Mohammedeans
- Mohametteans
- There is no clear defintion
- but an Arab would be someone who
speaks Arabic, the native language of
the Quran
- Islam
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Fertile Crescent
- It's not as fertile cuz of desertification
- Early agricultural spot. One of the agri. emergence
points.
- Tigris and Euphrates create
fecund flood plains in between
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Ancient Mesopotamia / first written language
- Sumerian civilization
- 3000s BCE - Cuneiform
- Bureaucratic language
- Ottoman Empire was the last
empire to exist in Mesopotamia
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Oil
- 7% of population of the world
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69% of the world's oil
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21% of the world's oil is under Saudi Arabia
- troll face
- Don't forget about North Africa's oil
- War
- Money
- Power
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What is Physiological Density?
- p. 293
- Physiological Density is number of people per space of ariable land
- in the desert this is extremely important
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Egypt
- nearly 70 million - most are within 10 miles of Nile river
- More important than Population Density in this area
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Palestine...Israel
- One of the most significant geopolitical situations
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History
- 1948 British mandate ending over ex-Ottoman Palestine
- 1948: Israel declares independence names "homeland"
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1948: Arab-Israeli War
- Egypt
- Syria
- Jordan
- Iraq
- Saudi Arabia
- Lebanon
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1949: War ends, Temporary Borders Drawn
- Egypt Takes Gaza
- Jordan takes West Bank
- 1949: Israel becomes a Member state of the UN
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But what happens to the Palestinian people living in Israel?
- many get expelled
- Palestinians are stateless nations
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West Bank / Gaza Strip
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West Bank of Dead Sea
- Controlled by Israel with a little PA power
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Gaza Strip
- Palestinian Authority control but
surrounded by Israeli military.
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Jewish Movement to Israel
- After the holocaust many Jews moved there
- After the Soviet Union broke up, Jews began emigrating from there
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Cheap Labor
- Palestinians work in Israel
- New ex-soviet labor influx destroys Palestinian labor market
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1993 Peace Agreement
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Rabin and Arafat sign peace agreement
- Nobel Peace Prize btw
- Rahm Emanuel arranged the peace accords
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1995: Rabin assassinated by jewish extremists
- by a Palestinian right?
- No. An extremist israeli
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Military Embargo, "Closure"
- Security Wall
- How long is the wall?
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When was it built?
- 2002
- 10 years old yay!
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Who would take someone elses land like that?
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Well, yeah America
- Manifest Destiny!
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Israeli Economics Today: The Global connection
- Jerusalem - capital
- Tel Aviv - Financial center
- What's the story of the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem?
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Israeli Trade
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Guns-and-Caviar-Index
- Guns - Fighter Jets
- Caviar - Executive Jets
- Meaning, Executives help economy; War depresses
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Hmm, since 2003, Both rapidly grew
- hmm, how...complex muhaahha
- the military-industrial...complex
- Why would we want peace if it's not profitable?
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Economics
- In Isreal right now, Wars and Attacks are up
- Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv going up with violence
- Decreased peace/stability and profit are co-occurring
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Recent Background
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High Tech Industry
- Dot-com Boom
- Security and Surveillance industry grew in reaction to the dot com boom
- Compulsory Army Service
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Post-9/11 world happened
- The Security and Surveillance industry boomed
in reaction to 9/11