Geography assignment
Reading Review Questions
Chapter 7 – North Africa and Southwest Asia
Due Friday, March 3, 10:00 pm on D2L. Use complete sentences. For each response, provide a page number from the textbook where you found the answer.
Reading Review Questions
Chapter 7 – North Africa and Southwest Asia
Due Friday, March 3, 10:00 pm on D2L. Use complete sentences. For each response, provide a page number from the textbook where you found the answer.
1. Discuss five important human modifications of the Southwest Asian and North African environment, and assess whether these changes have benefited the region.
2. Describe the distinctive contributions of (a) Islam, (b) European colonialism, and (c) recent globalization to the region’s urban landscape.
3. Explain how ethnic differences have shaped Iraq’s political conflicts in the past 50 years.
4. Identify different strategies for economic development recently employed by nations such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt? How successful have they
been, and how are they related to globalization?
Discuss five important human modifications of the Southwest Asian and North African environment, and assess whether these changes have benefited the region.
Describe the distinctive contributions of (a) Islam, (b) European colonialism, and (c) recent globalization to the region’s urban landscape.
Explain how ethnic differences have shaped Iraq’s political conflicts in the past 50 years.
Identify different strategies for economic development recently employed by nations such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt? How successful have they been,
and how are they related to globalization?
