GEOG 1003 Final: Study Guide Geo Final
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Human geography: africa and asia: understand the suez canal"s importance to international trade between. Slides for november 4th; textbook, page 320: the suez canal, running through egypt, connects the mediterranean. Sea and red sea, linking europe to asia directly. The direct connection gave foreign powers more control over the eygptian economy. The british took more direct control in 1883: identify the relationship between the distribution of egypt"s population, the country"s prevailing climate, and the nile river. 4th; textbook, page 303: the majority of the population lives in the nile river valley and nile delta because of the water and the nutrients that the river brings to the soil. The prevailing climate is desert with little rain all year: understand the profound change that"s taken place in where the people of the arabian peninsula live and the factor that drove this change over the past half-century.
