The Middle
East
The Land
and the
people
Agenda
• Problems of the ME
Activity
• Hwk: Notes.
• If Time: Maps
• Review Maps
• Objective: To identify key
geographic features of
the Middle East and
explain how it affects
people that live their.
Save the Last Word
• Get into main Groups
• Person who is oldest will read 1
statement to the group
• Each group member in clockwise
order will respond-write down
responses
• Then original person says their
comment on the back
• Repeat through four statements
• Then person to the left goes. .
• When done go to article two!
review
• How did water scarcity
lead to problems in the
Me?
• How can oil be a problem
for the future of the Me?
• How does the
environment shape
cultures in the Me?
The Middle
East
The Land
and the
people
Agenda
• Review-8 Cards
• Hwk: Notes.
• Maps
• Review Maps
• Objective: To identify key
geographic features of
the Middle East and
explain how it affects
people that live there.
review
• How did water scarcity
lead to problems in the
Me?
• How can oil be a problem
for the future of the Me?
• How does the
environment shape
cultures in the Me?
The Middle
East
The Land
and the
people
Agenda
• The Crossroad Notes
• Hwk: Maps/Notes
• Maps
• Review Maps
• Objective: To identify
key geographic features
of the Middle East and
explain how it affects
people that live their.
The CrossRoads
• What’s in a name?
• GeographicallySouth
• Europeans invented
west Asia
the term (early 20th
• LinguisticallyArab
century) to describe
World that lies
the region
Religiously and
• between EuropeIslamic
the Far East (China,
World (poor choice)
Japan, Korea, etc.)
The CrossRoads
• Crossroads of the World
• Ideas and inventions have spread
• across this region (Diffusion)
Middle East stands at the
• Strategic Location
connection of three
continents (Africa, Europe,
1. vast oil reserves
Asia)military and economic
2.
significance major trade routes
• Connected
3. vital sea routes by sea.
both overland and
The CrossRoads
Characteristics—More skies
• Hot—during the summer than are
clear and and Camels 100 degrees.
Deserts temps soar over
• Adapt: Farmers must raise crops that
• Very diverse but
require little rain and can stand hot
generally….. wheat)
temps. (barley,
• Dry—most areas receive
• Less than 10% of the land receives
less than 8 inches of farming
enough water to make rain
per year
possible.
The CrossRoads
• Water
•Mountains ringing
• Water is the key issue in the Middle
East. It determines life!
the region prevent
• Water determines where people
live, how long they from
rain clouds stay, how many
can live there, caused wars, forced
reaching inland. and
people to move long distances,
has caused people to prosper or
perish
The CrossRoads
• 4 Main Physical Regions region from
• Fertile Crescent — arc shaped
• Northern TierTigris and Euphrates rivers
Med. Sea along — area through Turkey
and Iran Gulf.
to Persian mountains and plateaus
-rich soil, abundant water=major
• Arabian Peninsula — vast plateau in
population
Saudi Arabia,
• Nile River Valley — through Egypt fertile
-small population/little water/barren
area
desert,
-natural barriers protection-deserts
-huge amounts of oil
around it
-birth place of Islam (Mecca)
-flooding is predictable and dependable
review
• Why does the Middle East
have a strategic
importance?
• What is the key issue in
the Middle East and why?
• What are the Four
Physical Regions of the
Middle East?