Oil's Impact on North Africa & Southwest Asia: Modernization & Disparities - Prof. Jeroen , Study notes of Political Geography

Download Oil's Impact on North Africa & Southwest Asia: Modernization & Disparities - Prof. Jeroen and more Study notes Political Geography in PDF only on Docsity! NORTH AFRICA & SOUTHWEST ASIA - II CHAPTER 7 (335-360) IMPACT OF OIL (PHOTO)  HIGH INCOMES  MODERNIZATION  INDUSTRIALIZATION  REGIONAL DISPARITIES  FOREIGN INVESTMENT THE REALM’S OIL AND NATURAL GAS (MAPS) REGIONS OF THE REALM (MAP) EGYPT AND THE LOWER NILE BASIN (MAP) EGYPT AND THE LOWER NILE BASIN  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 AGR LAND BY 50% -- PROVIDES 40% OF ELECTRICITY EGYPT (PHOTOS)  STRATEGIC SITUATION  CAIRO THE MAGHREB AND ITS NEIGHBORS (MAP) THE MAGHREB AND ITS NEIGHBORS  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 THE MAGHREB AND ITS NEIGHBORS (PHOTOS)  ATLAS MOUNTAINS -- FERTILE COASTLINE -- RAIN SHADOW EFFECT  FRENCH COLONIALISM  OIL-RICH LIBYA AFRICAN TRANSITION ZONE (MAP) AFRICAN TRANSITION ZONE  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 AFRICAN TRANSITION ZONE (PHOTOS)  CULTURAL CONFLICT -- MUSLIM - CHRISTIAN  NOMADISM  ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS THE MIDDLE EAST (MAP) THE MIDDLE EAST  “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? THE MIDDLE EAST (PHOTOS)