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Middle East+ North Africa

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  • dry
  • sits on Tropic of Cancer
  • 3 climates
    • Mediterranean
    • subtropical steppe
    • tropical savannah

(Iberian Peninsula) river valleys

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Egypt ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ

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  • Lake Victoria
  • white Nile, Lake tana, Blue Nile
  • Aswan
  • agriculture (family farms)
  • exotic river flowing through the dry climate
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Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ

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  • Tigris river
  • Euphrates river

Subsistence agriculture

  • Mediterranean
  • Herding of sheep & goat

(3 types of agriculture)

  1. Coastal Algeria+ Morocco ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
    Mediterranean climate& grapes

2.coastal Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
Mediterranean climate and citrus ๐ŸŠ fruit

  1. Nile valley (Egypt)
    Dessertโ€ฆ irrigate cotton

Large scale oil
Desert of Algeria

35 million people live here

1 country for dates (fruit)

Basra is the main port

Baghdad= govmt

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Turkey

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-โ€œstraitsโ€ barrow bodies of water that connect 2 land masses

  • Basparus
  • sea of mamara
  • eastern highlands
  • western lowlands
  • Peninsula [Asian turkey]
  • European Turkey
  • 75 million people live here
  • subtropical steppe & Mediterranean
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Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

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-ww1 1919

8 million people here

  • Jews/ Arab
  • oil
  • coal

United Nations

Damascus= govmt.

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Iran ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท

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  • 78 million people live here
  • population concentration -Tehran
- Persian golf states 
  Kuwait 
  V.A.E
  Qatar
  Bahrain
  Oman
  • nomad herding
  • oil pipelines
  • Adan- oil

Yemen- dessert main port

Fishing
Herding
Trading
Pearling

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