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Quant system
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Iranian practiced of tapping into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels; other adaptation includes waterwheels, flood irrigation and canal system
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Schistosomiasis
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In Egypt built in 1970 increased water storage and generates water storage and generates electricity, but also increases salinization, sedimentation of lake Nasser, and cases of schistosomiasis (parasitic disease carried in water
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Hydro politic
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The interplay of water resource issued and politics; it has raised tensions between countries that share drainage basins
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Maghreb
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Translation from Arabic \"western island\" (Morocco , Algeria and Tunisia); Atlas Mountains on Mediterranean east coast are related to alps in Europe; topography varies from mountains to sand
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Levant
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Eastern Mediterranean region, including Lebanon; mountains with in 20 miles of the ocean; Arabian peninsula is a plateau, sloping eastward ; rugged highlands in Oman and Yemen; drifting dune fields elsewhere
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Anatolian plateau
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Turkey The large peninsula of Turkey, also sometimes called Asia Minor; average height 3000 to 5000 feet, prone to earthquakes, Elburz mountains in northern Iran are >18000 feet
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Mesopotamia
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Land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq
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Physiologic densities
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The number of people relative to the amount of farm land
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Pastoral nomadism
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A traditional form of subsistence agriculture in which practitioners depend on regular and systematic seasonal movement of livestock for a large part of their livelihood; some nomads practice
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Kibbutzes
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Collectively worked settlements in Israel that produced grain vegetable, and orchard crops; these are made by exotic rivers
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Medina
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Islam influenced city form, with the most common form the walled urban core; European colonists also left their imprint on architecture
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Within
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To areas with growing job opportunities
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Outside
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With Turkish guest workers moving to Germany, Algerians and Moroccans mostly to France, others to North America
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Left Iran Lebanon
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During political turmoil of the 1980's
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Persians and Kurds
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\"Kurdistan\" has been called the \"world's largest nation without its own political state\"
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Persia
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(Iran) and Turkey were directly colonized; Britain and Russia has spheres of economic influence in Persia which was technically independent
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Muammar Al-Qaddafi
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Libya leader
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Hosi murbark
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Egypt leader
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Darfur
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Sudan leader
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26%
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Of the worlds proven oil reserves
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Turkey economy
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Has a diversified economy with agriculture (cotton, tobacco, wheat, fruit) and industry ( textiles, food, chemicals) and tourism
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Turkey
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Is trying to become a member of the EU
