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- High incomes
- Modernization
- Industrialization
- Intra-realm migration
- Inter-realm migration
- Regional disparities
- Foreign investment
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- CONTINUOUS CIVILIZATION > 5,000 YEARS
- 95% OF EGYPT’S 74.1 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE WITHIN 12 MILES (20 KMS) OF THE
NILE
- BASIN IRRIGATION
- PERENNIAL IRRIGATION - MID 1800s
- ASWAN HIGH DAM - 1968
- INCREASED AGRICULTURAL LAND BY 50%
- PROVIDES 40% OF ELECTRICITY
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- Strategic Situation
- Cairo
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- THE MAGHREB - DOMINATED BY THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
- MOROCCO - LAST OF THE NORTH AFRICAN KINGDOMS
- ALGERIA - A SECULAR REPUBLIC WITH RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL PROBLEMS
- TUNISIA - SMALLEST AND MOST WESTERNIZED OF THE MAGHREBS
- LIBYA - OIL RICH DESERT STATE WITH A COASTAL ORIENTATION
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- Atlas Mountains
- - Fertile Coastline
- - Rain Shadow Effect
- French Colonialism
- Oil-Rich Libya
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- SAHEL - ARABIC WORD FOR BORDER OR MARGIN
- A ZONE WHERE PEOPLE ARE ETHNICALLY AFRICAN BUT CULTURALLY ARAB
- DESERTIFICATION - PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM
- CULTURAL AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY
- NORTH VERSUS SOUTH - MUSLIM VERSUS NON-MUSLIM PATTERNS
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- Cultural Conflict
- Nomadism
- Environmental Problems
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- “MIDDLE” OF THE ISLAMIC REALM
- IRAQ, SYRIA, JORDAN, ISRAEL, LEBANON
- CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN CHRISTIANS, JEWS, AND MUSLIMS
- SUNNI - SHI’ITE CONFLICT (WITHIN IRAQ AND THROUGHOUT THE REGION)
- A FUTURE KURDISTAN?
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- Fertile Crescent
- Culture Hearth
- Oil
- Cultural Conflict
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- ZIONISM
- POLITICAL MOVEMENT
- FOUNDED BY THEODOR HERZL (1897)
- OBJECTIVE: SECURE A HOMELAND FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
- BALFOUR DECLARATION (1917)
- SUPPORTS THE CONCEPT OF A JEWISH HOMELAND
- JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO PALESTINE
- 1922 – BRITISH MANDATE TO GOVERN PALESTINE
- RISING CONFLICT BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS
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- UN PARTITION PLAN FOR PALESTINE
- DIVISION INTO JEWISH AND ARAB AREAS
- BRITISH EVACUATE PALESTINE IN 1948
- PROCLAMATION OF ISRAEL AS A STATE (14 May 1948)
- 1948: ARAB INVASION (WAR OF INDEPENDENCE)
- EGYPTIAN, IRAQI, JORDANIAN, & SYRIAN FORCES
- ISRAEL SEIZES MORE LAND THAN PRESCRIBED UNDER UN MANDATE
- ARMISTICE (1949)
- 900,000 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES
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- ARAB – ISRAELI CONFLICTS
- 1956: SUEZ WAR
- 1967: SIX-DAY WAR – ISRAEL GAINS CONTROL OF:
- GAZA STRIP
- SINAI PENINSULA
- WEST BANK OF THE RIVER JORDAN
- EAST SECTOR OF JERUSALEM
- GOLAN HEIGHTS IN SYRIA
- 1973: YOM KIPPUR WAR
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- THE GOLAN HEIGHTS- RETURN TO SYRIA?
- THE SECURITY ZONE- RETURN TO LEBANON?
- JERUSALEM- HOLY CITY FOR WHO?
- THE WEST BANK- PALESTINIAN HOMELAND?
- THE PALESTINIANS- REFUGEE PROBLEM
- ARAB/ISLAMIC DISRUPTION- IMPACT OF EXTREMIST GROUPS
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- HOLY TO JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS
- JUDAISM: CAPITAL OF JEWISH KINGDOM 3000 YEARS BP; FAITH TOOK FORM IN THE
FIRST TEMPLE-DESTROYED BY BABYLONIANS IN 586 BC; REBUILT AS SECOND
TEMPLE-DESTROYED BY ROMANS IN AD 70
- ISLAM: PROPHET MUHAMMAD ASCENDED
INTO HEAVEN 7TH CENTURY AD
- CHRISTIANITY: BASED ON THE
TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST; CRUXIFICTION & ASCENT
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- 1947- UNITED NATIONS DID NOT
INCLUDE JERUSALEM AS PART OF ISRAEL
- 1947- PALESTINE PARTITION RESOLUTION DESIGNATED JERUSALEM AS AN “OPEN
CITY”
- 1948-49- WAR AND TRANSFER OF ISRAELI GOVERNMENT FROM TEL AVIV TO
JERUSALEM
- 1967- WAR AND AFTERMATH CHANGED
BOUNDARIES AGAIN
- 1980- JERUSALEM REAFFIRMED AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL
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- SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, QATAR, UAE, OMAN, YEMEM
- OIL, DESERT, AND STRATEGIC LOCATION
- SAUDI ARABIA- 25.4 MILLION PEOPLE WITH THE WORLD’S GREATEST OIL RESERVES
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