Geography GEO 1310 Lecture 4: Exam 3 study guide.docx
6 May 2015
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Arabian plate moving away from africa and crashing into asia. Ideas and innovations, emerge, develop and spread around the earth. Agriculture: perfect area, lots of water & fertile soil. Believed ottoman empire lost because they were stuck in the past. Treatment of the kurds bad; human rights groups don"t like them. Overthrown in the 50"s; put back in 1952. Shia islam: 15% worldwide 90% in iran (conservative) Both potential threats: contain them by keeping them at war with each other. Sold weapons to both sides so neither could gain advantage. Saddam hussein: started iran-iraq war after 2 years of power. 1990; invaded kuwait to get more access to the gulf. Operation desert storm: us liberated kuwait, took 100 hours. United nations weapons inspection: destroy mass destruction weapons. Immediately paid back war debt from liberation with desert storm. Some of the largest proven oil reserves: 2nd place. Easier to get to then canada or venezuela.
