GEOG 213 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Iberian Peninsula, Theocracy, Christianity Today
24 Apr 2016
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Area: from morocco on shores of atlantic to eastward mountains of afghanistan. Crossroads of europe, asia and africa and gained influence from all three. Dry world : great deserts dominate- dry conditions throughout (exceptions exist) Drought unreliable precipitation: extremely unreliable precipitation patterns, water the most precious and critical resource, population dense around great rivers (originating largely outside the realm) the chief water resource. Conflict over water supplies where population growth rates are high. Arab world : arabic language dominant in north africa, arabian peninsula, syria and. Christian minority in lebanon, israel, syria, egypt and jordon. The fertile crescent ~original literate civilization: the hearth of the earliest civilizations. Mesopotamia, elam, assyria, western iran, iraq, israel, lebanon, Diffused ideas, innovations, technologies: hearths of culture. Human communities began to domesticate plants and animals, irrigate their fields, enlarged settlements into towns ad formed monotheistic religions. First judaism in nile then christianity then islam.
