Southwest Asia And North Africa Flashcards
(28 cards)
How do southwest Asia and North Africa landforms match up with settlement?
Arid, settlement near the water not as much Mountains
What are major landforms of southwest Asia? North Africa?
North Africa: magherb region- morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. Dominated by Atlas Mountains
Southwest Asia:
Levant- Lebanon mountains/ highlands
Yemen highlands: SW Yemen on Arabian peninsula
Anatolia- peninsula of turkey “Asia minor” (geological active plateau)
Elburz and Zagros mountains of Iran
What characterizes a Mediterranean climate? How climate matches with population?
Hot warm summers & wet cool winters
Wetter= northern part and most ideal good place to live
Exotic water
Waters that come from humid areas
Which counties are involved in disputes over exotic water?
Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan
Why would Israel be reluctant to give up occupation of West Bank?
Because West Bank is right on jordan river, aka WATER
Population characteristics of North Africa and SW asia?
Anywhere near rivers and water. Pop young and growing fast and more than 400 mill people are in region
Physiological density?
A population statistic that relates the number of people in the country to the amount of arable land (there Amung the highest on earth)
What characterizes a traditional Islamic city in North Africa and south west Asia?
Having a moss in the center & big buildings
Who emigrates to SWA and NA and where do they go and what do they do?
People from areas of Middle East go to find jobs. And usually labor jobs ( construction&service) go to oil rich counties aka Saudi Arabia
Milet system
Allowed each religion self autonomy under there own ruler
How has oil wealth transformed urban landscapes and Persian gulf countries?
Tremendous wealth, skyscrapers. (Modernized)
Who are the laborers who built the Persian gulf counties?
People who emigrates from Middle East
What is the principle schism within Islam?
Disagree about religion and now it came about
Where are Sunnis mostly located?
Middle East everywhere. Majority are Sunnis
Where are Shiites?
Iran southern, Iraq
Where are the Sufis?
Parts of Syria
Where are there significant Christian minorities located?
Syria Lebanon Egypt
Which country in the region has the most Christians as a percentage of it’s total population?
Egypt
Where is Makkah, Mecca?
Saudi Arabia. Where Muhammad was born
Where would Berber speakers tend to live?
Turkey. (Atlas mts) North Africa, morocco and Algeria
What language family is Berber found in?
Afro Asiatic
Kurdish?
Iraq.. Maybe turkey
Farsi
Iran
