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NORTH AFRICA & SOUTHWEST ASIA

NORTH AFRICA & SOUTHWEST ASIA. PIVOTAL LOCATION. EARLY CULTURE HEARTHS. MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL QUALITIES OF THE REALM. Physical Aridity Oil Cultural Culture Hearths World Religions Conflict. MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL QUALITIES OF THE REALM (cont). Population

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NORTH AFRICA & SOUTHWEST ASIA

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  1. 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. E.J. PALKA MITZPE-RAMON

  10. E.J. PALKA NEGEV DESERT

  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. E.J. PALKA ISRAEL-SYRIA BORDER

  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 (571- 632 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. E.J. PALKA DOME OF THE ROCK

  19. E.J. PALKA THE WESTERN WALL

  20. E.J. PALKA CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY

  21. THE STAGE FOR ISLAM

  22. 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

  23. 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.

  24. RELOCATION DIFFUSION

  25. RELOCATION DIFFUSION

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. CONTAGIOUS EXPANSION

  29. CONTAGIOUS EXPANSION

  30. CONTAGIOUS EXPANSION

  31. HIERARCHICAL EXPANSION • A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by “trickling down” from larger to smaller adopting units • An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wider areas, with geographic distance a less important factor.

  32. Hierarchy Highest Intermediate Lowest HIERARCHICAL EXPANSION

  33. HIERARCHICAL EXPANSION

  34. HIERARCHICAL EXPANSION

  35. HIERARCHICAL EXPANSION

  36. HIERARCHICAL EXPANSION

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