GEOG 1014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arabian Peninsula, Toubkal, Rain Shadow
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Toubkal, 13,671ft high: second highest peak in africa. High atlas has about 10 different peaks that are above 10,000 ft: higher elevations = colder, atlas chains form dividing line between nw africa & rest of the. Sahara: rain shadow effect = moisture sweeps in from atlantic ocean. Warm, wet air brought in, then goes up and freezes and condenses and falls as rain: own separate culture. People assume everything is desert, arab, and. Arab people are from arabian peninsula: where islam is from, 8th century, empire swept to atlas mountains 3500- 4000 miles away from peninsula: arab language came too. People are ethincally & linguistically burbur: eventually recognized as first & original north african peoples, indigenous of north africa, bulk of moroccan, algerian, tunisian = burbur, speak a lot of arabic because it"s the language of islam. 50-60 million people increase in burbur pride around. Morocco made it a national language last year.
