The Greater Middle East Globalization from Mesopotamia to
The Greater Middle East
Globalization: from Mesopotamia to Mc. Arabia
Plate tectonics
Maghreb
Levant
Global pressure and wind belts
Orographic precipitation
(as of 2002)
Salinization, Tunisia
Salinized soil
Population map
Ethnic groups in Southwest Asia
Distribution of Religions
Mesopotamia
Jericho Dead Sea
Jericho
Catal Huyuk shrine figurine
Ancient cities Ur
Demographic transition model
Saudi Arabia population pyramid for 2005
Alluvial fan
Alluvial fan
Qanat system Only the “mother well” is a true well “chain wells” admit air and maintenance workers
View inside a qanat
Qanats Qanat holes seen from air Qanat exit www. livius. org
Aswan High Dam
Lake Nasser
Lake Nasser
Schistosomiasis – worms, eggs in tissues, and victim
Libya’s Great Man Made River Constructed in the 1990 s, the 600 -mile aqueduct brings water from vast groundwater supplies in southern Libya to the north coast (Colonel Mu'ammar Abu-Minyar al. Qadhafi)
World’s largest desalination plant (Saudi Arabia) – 800 million gallons/day
Sudd Swamp
Sudd swamp, Sudan
Cairo
Cairo
Cairo’s “City of the Dead”
City of the Dead
City of the Dead
Islam as an urban religion: the Islamic City • • • Main mosque, with minarets Suqs (markets) surrounding main mosque Citadel (or casbah), the governor’s palace Residential quarters Street network emphasizing privacy Surrounding wall
Blue Mosque, Istanbul
Grand Mosque, Bur Dubai, UAE
Moroccan suq
Fes medina
Casbah, Algiers
Traditional Islamic house courtyard
Mecca
The Ka’aba in the Great Mosque, Mecca
Jerusalem’s Old City
Oasis plantation, Tunisia
Ottoman Empire, 1580
British and French mandates
Armenian clergy make crosses from bones of genocide victims
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 http: //www. dartmouth. edu/~gov 46/sykes-picot-1916. gif
Balfour Declaration 1917
Palestinian refugee camp
West Bank Jewish settlements
West Bank settlements
Intifada
Kibbutzes lexicorient. co m/e. o/kibbutz. htm
Cyprus
Kurds
Oil!
Ghawar Oil Field
Palm Island, Dubai
Agassi vs. Federer on the helipad of the Burj al Arab hotel, Dubai
“Fiery Furnace” (Daniel 3)
Moorish architecture, Spain
Iraqis “environmental warfare” in Kuwait
Intifada
Common crops in the Middle East wheat licorice frankincense coffee olives
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