Economy of the Middle East
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Middle East? OR Near East?OR Southwest Asia? OR….?
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Includes 25+ territories
Western Sahara is disputed
5.91 million square miles
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Location Almost 2 times the size of US Located at latitudes equivalent Boston and Bogota
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Population Around 600
million people
Majority of population in four countries:
○ Iran○ Egypt○ Turkey○ Pakistan
Why is this?
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Natural Vegetation Map
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Climate Map
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Has a high population growth
○ Developing countries
○ Muslim cultures○ Palestine, one
of the highest growth rates in the world
The more urban the population, the wealthier the country
○ Kuwait
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On the other hand…..
Desperately poor countries urban population is less than 32%
Ex:○ Afghanistan ○ Sudan○ Yemen
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Water in the Middle East!
TigrisRiver
Nile River
EuphratesRiver
Jordan River Persian Gulf
ArabianSea
Mediterranean Sea
IndianOcean
Red Sea
Black Sea
Gulf of Aden
Strait ofHormuz
Suez Canal
Dardanelles Strait
AtlanticOcean
Gulf ofOman
Caspian
Sea
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Tigris-Euphrates River System Land in between,
historically called Mesopotamia
○ “Land between two rivers”
Shared by Iraq, Turkey, and Syria
Part of the Fertile Crescent
Marsh, swamps, shallows
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The Jordan River System extremely important
resource to surrounding countries
Where Jesus was baptized
Sections still used for baptism
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The Dead Sea 1,385 ft. below sea
levelLowest Place on
Earth
One of the saltiest bodies of water
Has a high buoyancy-people can easily float
Health benefits
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The Arabian Peninsula and It’s Oil
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• 2/3 of the world’s oil is located in the Middle East (most located along the Persian Gulf and in Iraq)
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The U. S. imports 30% of its oil needs from the Middle East.
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The Oil Giant of Saudi Arabia Occupies most of
the Arabian Peninsula
Homeland of Arab civilization and Islam
Interior is plateau Has no permanent
rivers! Saudization
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Persian Gulf Oil Exports
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Saudi Oil Has the largest
amount of proven oil reserves in the world
Produces 2nd largest amount of oil
Ghawar, worlds largest oil field
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Bahrain Small island Connected to SA by
four-lane causeway Also center for oil
refinement, but running out of oil
Only country of Arabian Penninsula to allow women to vote
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Qatar UAE
On worlds third largest natural gas reserve
4/5 of population are imported workers because of that industry
Home of al-Jazeera But before the oil and
gas….
Confederation of seven units
Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the oil economic centers
Because of oil, UAE is successfully diversifying its economy
More liberal, especially Dubai
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Yemen Oman
Located on mountainous southern tip
Receives heaviest rainfall of the peninsula
Struggling economy ○ Lack of industrial production○ Immigrant Yemen workers ○ Late oil discovery
Source of ancient worlds frankincense
Capital, Muscat vital trade port between ME-SA
Been U.S. allies in Gulf War and War in Iraq
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Iraq Why such a hot
spot?○ Sunni○ Shi’ite ○ Kurd
Tigris and Euphrates used for agriculture
Baghdad is everything!
○ Located perfectly
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Continued….. Oil is main source of
revenue Should have
allowed them to thrive, but….
○ Arab Baath Socialist Party
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Iran Used to be Persia, until occupied by British Restoration of the “shah”
○ Reza Pahlavi
1979, Khomeini ○ Islamic Republic
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Continued… First country in ME
to produce oil○ Also, pistachio and
Persian rugs
Mostly Mts., plateau and desert
Northwest region able to grow subtropical crops
○ Majority depend on irrigation
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Kuwait Size of New Jersey
○ Yet, 4th largest store of petroleum resources
From poor fishers and farmers to wealthy urbanized state
OIL ONLY!
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U.S. and Iraq 1980-88 Iran-Iraq
War 1991 Gulf War 2003 War in Iraq
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U.S. and Iran
1980 Iraq Iran War 1980 Tehran
Hostages 2002 “Axis of Evil” Straight of
Hormuz/Nuclear capabilities
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ACTIVITY Using the chart,
create a trade flow map of how the U.S. obtains oil from around the world.
Be sure to indicate the amount of oil imported by arrow size.
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Trade Flow Map Examples