GEOG 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Choke Point, Stateless Nation, Bab-El-Mandeb
13 Oct 2016
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Most of realm"s people cluster near freshwater sources: river valleys, basins, deltas, moist coastlines, well-watered mountain basins, groundwater sources. Is this the middle east : reflects biases of the western world, from the european perspective: realm was between the near east in turkey and the. Implies ethnic and linguistic uniformity that dose not exist: turkey, iran, and israel are just a few countries that are distinctly not arab. An islamic world : contested geographies beyond the realm. Suggests that there is no islam beyond the realm"s borders, when the islamic faith extends far outside it: contested geographies within the realm. Christian minority populations in all the realm"s regions. Judaism has its base in the realm. Islam has a wide-ranging impact on the realm"s cultural geographies. Internal divisions: nations without states, territories in progress, boundary framework from the colonial era, population unevenly disperse in countries, regions, and the realm overall.
