GEOG120 Final: GEOG 120 study guide for final exam, Professor Lindsey Naylor

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North africa, they are called the middle east, because there are problems defining the term middle east: culture hearth: an area of historical cultural innovations. Africa is a key global culture hearth, producing many new cultural ideas that subsequently diffused widely. Choke points: strategic setting where narrow waterways or other narrow passages are vulnerable to military blockade disruption: desalinization is a process that removes minerals from saline water. This portion of northern egypt is a vast, low lying landscape of settlements. Persian gulf nations support immigrants workforces that often comprise large proportions of the overall population is foreign workers: hajj: an islamic religious pilgrimage to makkah, one of the five essential pillars of the. Baghdad and they have managed to create and establish federal region that already enjoys some automys from central iraq government: iran- the nuclear issue: most of the countries around the world have disagreed on the.