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You may work on your map packet for 15 minutes. Lets preview the region: . India. The 7 th largest country in the world, 2 nd most populous country in the world (1.2 billion people), most populous democracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNpX_tdrvZg India . Nepal. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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India The 7th largest country in the world, 2nd most populous country in the world (1.2 billion people), most populous democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNpX_tdrvZg India
Nepal Located in the Himalayas. Home to Mt. Everest
Pakistan The 6th most populous country in the world. Capital: Islamabad
Ancient center of the silk road. President: Hamid KarzaiCapital: Kabul
Burqa
Afghanistan
Iran Major regional and middle eastern power. Capital: Tehran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAs5X9weNuw&list=PLnLzj3Htnqmk0FC19vuxWUFFJpCdqEPBn Iran
Where Mesopotamia (“the land between the rivers” was located. Capital: Baghdad
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Iraq
Turkey Borders Greece and the Mediterranean Sea. A democratic country with a rich cultural heritage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrNN6dAhg4U&list=PLnLzj3Htnqmk0FC19vuxWUFFJpCdqEPBn Turkey
Saudi Arabia Economy largely backed by its oil industryMecca
Yemen and Oman
Sana’a, Yemen Muscat, Oman
Israel Capital: Jerusalem. The country is important and sacred to Jews, Muslims, and Christians as it is the site to many places that are pivotal to their religious beliefs. (Nazareth, Bethlehem, Tiberias and Safed, Ramla)
The Wailing Wall
Syria Capital: Damascus. One of the oldest cities in the world.
Kazakhstan
Himalayan Mountains• Home to the world’s highest
mountains, including Mt. Everest• Created by the collision of the
Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSHOQ6gv5Y How they were formed
Arabian Peninsula• A vast region containing oil and
natural gas (huge source of $$)
Mesopotamian Plain• Mesopotamia literally
means “land between rivers” in ancient Greek
• Centered around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• The south is flat and marshy• Thanks to advanced systems
of irrigation, soil (silt) was highly advanced in ancient civilization, and still is today!
The area was rich for farming
because of flooding every year. It
is STILL good for farming today
Sea of Marmara
The Dardanelles Strait
Bosporus Strait
These waterways link
the Mediterranean and
Black Seas and separate
Europe from Asia
The Red Sea Has a major reef system
Arabian SeaBay of Bengal
Both seas very important for fishing in the countries they border (India & more)
The Ganges River• The most sacred river to Hindus.• Also a lifeline to millions of
Indians who live along its course and depend on it for their daily needs
• It is worshiped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism
• Ranked 5th most polluted river in the world
Central Asia
dry dry dry
Central Asia
Covered by deserts
dry dry dry
The need for water:• Rainfall is sparse over much of the region,
and high temperatures cause surface water to evaporate quickly.
• As a result, the population does not have enough water to meet it’s needs
• Some countries draw water from aquifers when they cannot access clean rivers
What is an aquifer?an underground layer of water-
bearing rock from which groundwater can be extracted
using a water well
Southwest Asia
Not quite
as dry
Southwest Asia
• Not as dry, but because there is a high concentration of people, supplies of fresh water are still low.
• Farmers are the largest consumers of water, often used for irrigation
• They also use underground aquifers
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