Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalias (Cushitic and Semitic peoples) a.k.a Horn of Africa, are part of Middle East culturally and historically. I don't know why they are not so officially
In an earlier lesson, I discussed Perceptual Regions. This is the (valid) issue that you are discussing here--different people defining regions differently depending upon how they see the world. There is the geological definition of a continent and then there are the cultural definitions that are opposed to each other. In this case, it is easier to define Africa as Africa---bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and the Red Sea. This is why so many teachers teach it as such. Due to the cultural similarities, teachers like myself, will keep the Africa continent distinction but will teach it along with Northern Africa precisely for the reasons you discussed. Thanks for being so involved to contribute to the conversation.
Oil is the major driver of Middle East economy. The other resource is water, as areas are desert. Price of water is expensive. Water technology, desalinization . Removing salt from ocean water
Middle East has to depend on aquifers to provide water, as water is scarce as these countries are surrounded with deserts. They have desalinization plants.
Rivers flow through deserts, Nile begins in Uganda, Euphrates and Tigris begins in turkey. Atlas Mountains the backbone of North Africa, Zagros and Elburz mountains
Strait of Hormuz the most important choke point in the world as 1/3 of world's natural gas passes through this strait, also lies in one of the most volatile regions of the world.
The strait of Gibraltar is one of the busiest shipping lane, ships going through every five minutes. Red Sea connected to Mediterranean by sues canal, which makes choke point important as it lessens the journey and earns levying ships that passes through
Golf of Oman to the Persian gulf, the Hormuz strait. Scene of much conflict. Dead Sea is the saltiest sea in the world. Only bacteria survives in Dead Sea.
Thank you very much for the phys. geography vids on asia, I have a test tommorow and this is definitely gonna help me! Thank you so much! Best of luck in your future videos, which are very underrated as I can see, very high quality for very little views, either way thank you! I can't wait for your future vids.
Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalias (Cushitic and Semitic peoples) a.k.a Horn of Africa, are part of Middle East culturally and historically. I don't know why they are not so officially
In an earlier lesson, I discussed Perceptual Regions. This is the (valid) issue that you are discussing here--different people defining regions differently depending upon how they see the world. There is the geological definition of a continent and then there are the cultural definitions that are opposed to each other. In this case, it is easier to define Africa as Africa---bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and the Red Sea. This is why so many teachers teach it as such. Due to the cultural similarities, teachers like myself, will keep the Africa continent distinction but will teach it along with Northern Africa precisely for the reasons you discussed.
Thanks for being so involved to contribute to the conversation.
Oil is the major driver of Middle East economy. The other resource is water, as areas are desert. Price of water is expensive. Water technology, desalinization . Removing salt from ocean water
Middle East and North Africa shares physical characteristics also cultural characteristics.
Middle East has to depend on aquifers to provide water, as water is scarce as these countries are surrounded with deserts. They have desalinization plants.
The Levantine: location and region, east of Mediterranean Sea
Rivers flow through deserts, Nile begins in Uganda, Euphrates and Tigris begins in turkey. Atlas Mountains the backbone of North Africa, Zagros and Elburz mountains
Strait of Hormuz the most important choke point in the world as 1/3 of world's natural gas passes through this strait, also lies in one of the most volatile regions of the world.
The strait of Gibraltar is one of the busiest shipping lane, ships going through every five minutes. Red Sea connected to Mediterranean by sues canal, which makes choke point important as it lessens the journey and earns levying ships that passes through
Thank you so much man. This helps sooo much on my World Geo assignments
Thanks
We are learning about MENA and this was the perfect intro video. Thank you.
Glad it helps!
Golf of Oman to the Persian gulf, the Hormuz strait. Scene of much conflict. Dead Sea is the saltiest sea in the world. Only bacteria survives in Dead Sea.
Thank you 🙏🏾, this was really helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much for the phys. geography vids on asia, I have a test tommorow and this is definitely gonna help me! Thank you so much! Best of luck in your future videos, which are very underrated as I can see, very high quality for very little views, either way thank you! I can't wait for your future vids.
Thanks so very much. The views will come with such kind comments as yours.
nice comment
My teacher is using this video for a teaching video
Fantastic. I hope it helps!
Sub region called the Levantine, which includes, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon,
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The world trade passes through the choke points. It's a great earner.
The world's trade passes through these choke points and earn fees by levying
I thought Antarctica is the largest desert in the world? am I wrong?
No. The Sahara is the largest “hot” desert
Good video very clear to understand
Thank you for the kind words.
The Levant includes countries like, Syria, jordon, Lebanon , palestine
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Thanks so very much and the same to you!
Who else is Here for a geography assignment
Why, I do! I have a PhD dissertation proposal I am writing right now!
Middle East , also known as south west asia
Middle East also known as western asia
i like asia. I am asian
I’m not Asian. But I like Asia too. I’ll be in Asia in about a week. Thanks for watching.
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