1. 11/2/17 LT: I can describe how the Middle East is affected by water.
BBC: Uzbek immigrant in court facing charges today.
TODAY:
Unit requirement sheet hand out.
Vocabulary assigned—no due date given.
WATER!!!!

2. RESOURCES RENEWABLE RESOURCES Water
Rivers serve as lifelines throughout the region.
Water is the most important resource besides oil.
Exotic rivers - rivers that are found where they are least expected - in desert areas usually flow through an oasis CALLED WADIS.
NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES
1. OIL
2. NATURAL GAS

3. ARAB GULF STATES Persian Gulf Region Kuwait United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Oman
Qatar
Yemen
Persian Gulf Region
meeting point between the Middle East - Asia – Europe
95% of the region is sand

4. United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Dubai - young / cosmopolitan city... which has benefitted from oil riches.
Bursh al Arab Hotel
7-star hotel / $4000 per night
built on a man-made island
Jacuzzi in each room
tallest hotel in the world
(2) room suite comes w/ a personal butler
hotel is shaped like the sail of a trade boat
Palm Project
 expansive / futuristic housing project / community ...
in the shape of a palm tree.
an individual villa (unit) sells for 1.3 million.

8. https://www. youtube. com/watch
Things you will only see in Dubai ---cheetah in car, etc. 6 min
Bathrooms in burg Arab
Atlantis hotel
Mega mall in Dubai

9. 11/3/17
LT: I can describe why Qatar is important to the United States.
BBC: PRESIDENT TRUMP ON 11 DAY TRIP TO ASIA.
TODAY:
NOTES—QATAR
SHORT VIDEO—60 MINUTES QATAR
XC--WATER

10. 1 United Arab Emirates Dirham
equals
0.27 US Dollar
3 TO 1

12. Qatar—(cutter)
2.7 million—300,000 belong to
Ruling family group
Progressive=

15. Oman Muscat Wadi Frankincense Empty Quarter (Rubal Khali)
capital city of Oman
Wadi
a dry river bed that fills with water during rain
Frankincense
staple (basic) fragrance of the Middle East.
incense harvested from trees
Empty Quarter (Rubal Khali)
desert area / no-man’s land
Rangerover trlr

17. KUWAIT Kuwait is approx. the size of NJ Kuwait City
national capital.
Operation Desert Storm (1991)
UN military operation to liberate Kuwait...
Iraq (S. Hussein) invaded Kuwait to gain access to
the Persian Gulf.
Iraqi troops as a distraction / destruction set Kuwaiti oil fields on fire.
“oil lakes” (450) were created to save the oil spills... before & after the fires were extinguished.

19. KUWAIT Liberation Day (Feb. 26) Oil is 90% of Kuwait’s economy.
the day U.N. troops drove the Iraqi invaders out of Kuwait.
Oil is 90% of Kuwait’s economy.
Burgeon Oil Field
second largest oil field in the world
100 yrs. of oil reserves remains in Kuwait... 10% of the world’s oil

20. 11/6/17 LT: I can describe what the Middle East looks like geographically and culturally.
BBC: China and Trump tough talk for North Korea
TODAY:
--Short notes over physical and cultural Middle East.
--25 minute oil film showing “Old” Saudi Arabia and the Bedouin.

21. What does the Middle East look like?
20 countries make up the area known as North Africa and the Middle East.
North Africa and the Middle East are at least 3/4 desert and semiarid lands.
Mountains are found in North Africa, Turkey, and Northern Iraq and Iran.
This area has the world’s largest desert as well as the world’s longest river.

22. NILE RIVER :
The longest river in the world - it flows for some 4,145 miles and empties into the Mediterranean---the last 500 miles being the heartland of Egypt.

23. SAHARA DESERT–
world’s largest desert,
most locations receive less
than 10 in. of rain per year.

24. DIVERSITY
Most of the people of the region are Arabs ( name used to identify cultures that are marked by Arabian influences.)
90% of the people in the region are MUSLIMS
they believe in ISLAM, but there are different religious sects, I.E.: Sunnites and the Shiites and regional differences that divide the Arab nations.
Arabs also speak many different dialects, or language variations: main language is called Arabic.
Other important groups, include Jews, Turks and Persians (or Iranians). These groups represent a majority of the people in other countries of the region.