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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
3 WORLD RELIGIONSJUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, & ISLAM
Religious Holy Places: Jerusalem Jewish Presence:
Temples of Solomon (Temple Mount) 1st – King Solomon 2nd – Built at the same location Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
Only remaining portion of the 2nd Temple Temple was destroyed by the Romans
in 70 A.D.
3 WORLD RELIGIONSJUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, & ISLAM
Religious Holy Places: Jerusalem Christian Heritage Mount of Olives
Last Suffering Crucifixion
Church of the Holy Sepulcher Burial Place
Crusades Wars to regain control of the Holy Land
3 WORLD RELIGIONSJUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, & ISLAM
Religious Holy Places: Jerusalem Islamic Sacred Sites
Dome of the Rock Muslims: Where Mohammad rose into Heaven Jews: Where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son
Isaac
CULTURAL HISTORY
Early Civilizations Mesopotamia (Land Between Two Rivers)
Sumer - First civilization to practice intensive, year-round agriculture
Babylonia - Hammurabi's Code, first written Code of Laws
Assyria - First form of formal writing used Chaldea - The sun dial, the 7 day week and the science
of astronomy
CULTURAL HISTORY
Outside of Mesopotamia Hittites
Turkey Introduced the use of iron weapons First to create an alliance with another empire
(Egypt) Persia
Iran Innovation in government organization
System of collecting taxes Splitting the huge empire into separate states called satrapies
RELIGIOUS & LAND STRUGGLES
Dividing the Moon Islam splits after the death of Mohammad
Sunni – 83% of all Muslims Arabian Peninsula & Turkey Allowed up to 4 wife's Succession:
Shi’it (Shia) – 17% of all Muslims Mostly in Iran Allowed only 1 wife Succession:
FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM
Shahada
Salaah
Sawm
Zahaat
Haji
HISTORY OF UNREST
World War I & Treaty of Versailles Divided the Ottoman Empire
British – Southern section (Jordan & Palestine) French – Northern section (Syria & Lebanon)
Creating the State of Israel Zionism
Create a Jewish state in Palestine Before WWI 12% were Jewish Britain allowed uncheck immigration of Jews 1939 Britain halted immigration
HISTORY OF UNREST
Creating the State of Israel WWII
Thousand of Holocaust survivors wanted to settle in Palestine.
World opinion: Create of Jewish nation-state. Israel was created in 1948 by the United
Nations. Surrounding Arabs nations invaded Israel.
Hostilities continue today PLO – Palestine Liberation Organization
(regain occupied land for the Palestinian Arabs)