World Geography Lesson 6 Flashcards

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Three countries that have the lion's share of the Middle East and North Africa's population

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Turkey, Iran, and Egypt

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Most pressing economic problem that is worse than any other world region

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unemployment

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Most common climate in the Middle East and North Africa

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Desert

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Most common land use in the Middle East and North Africa

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Nomadic Herding

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Ecological trilogy of North Africa and the Middle East

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villager, pastoral nomad, and urbanite

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Settling down of nomads

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sedentarization

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Mesopotamian (and later Islamic) city

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medina

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Vernacular region referring to an arc of land stretching from Israel to western Iran

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Fertile Crescent

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A person of Semitic Arab ethnicity whose ancestral language is Arabic

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Arab

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A Semitic language spoken by about 350 million people in the Middle East and North Africa

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Arabic