HISTORY 439 Study Guide - Kairouan, Pharmacology, Rashidun
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The center of the course is the geographical place called the arid zone. We ll see a civilization that fuses all the areas of the arid zone to bring together ideas, cultural products, etc and puts a stamp on it. 19th century german diffusionism: diffusionists were interested in finding the origins of everything and seeing everything else as a copy of that original thing. What is its origin and trace its path of diffusion . Rain fall falls in which it can t be used immediately. Floods in ways very difficult to use for agriculture. Tend to have highly concentrated areas in using specialized irrigation techniques. Mazandaran: rain shadow on northern part of iran. *almost no annual rain fall in most of the area. *border between libya and egypt was a mystery. *we are going to look at several exceptions to the general rule of getting water from floods. There is a very thin bend of agriculture surrounded by wasteland.
