GEOG 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: War In Darfur, Indo-European Languages, Persian Language
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Cultural hearth an area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other parts of the world. Many key members of opec are located here. Opec organization of the petroleum exporting countries is an intergovernmental organization of 14 nations as of february 2018, founded in 1960 in baghdad by the first five members, and headquartered since 1965 in vienna, austria. Islamic fundamentalism in region advocates return to more traditional practices. Related political movement is islamism. (challenges global popular culture and blames western society for political, social and economic problems. ) Cairo"s tahir square was gathering point of arab spring. North afri(cid:272)a"s maghreb or western islands include morocco, algeria and tunisia. Arabian peninsula massive tilted plateau known as the levant. Tigris and euphrates rivers valleys and the jourdan river valley. Complex pattern of climate because of latitude and altitude. Nearly continuous belt of dessert land across north africa through arabian peninsula into iran.
