1. Middle East

3. Agriculture and Fishing
Small percentage of arable land
Mediterranean climate - cereal crops
Humid subtropical - citrus fruits, grapes, and cotton
Steppes of Central Asia - crops, grazing, and silkworms
Arable land - yet the majority of people work in agriculture

4. Industry Commodities – economic goods Over 60% of worlds oil
50% of natural gas reserves.

5. Petrochemicals Crude oil
Products derived from petroleum or natural gas
Crude oil
Petroleum that has not yet been refined
Exported to countries

6. Service Industries Banking, real estate, and insurance
60% of Bahrains’s GDP
Tourism
Northwest Africa and Southwest Asia
Holy sites
Mediterranean climate

7. Waterways and Pipelines
Pipelines to transport oil and water
Suez Canal connects Red Sea with Mediterranean

8. Communications
Satellite technology brings communication to large expanses of desert
Solar powered radio-phones
Government in some places limits programming for television

9. New Silk Roads Telecommunications highway
Plans to build road, rail and air routes along original Silk Road
30 countries

10. Trade
OPEC
Controls much of trade because of oil dependence
1973 embargo
Restricted oil to U.S.

11. Water Aquifers Desalination Removes salt from seawater Aswan High Dam
Underground layers of rock, gravel, and sand that contain water
Desalination
Removes salt from seawater
Aswan High Dam
Controls flooding along Nile
Generates Hydroelectric Power

12. Aswan High Dam

13. Great Man-Made River
Pipelines that carry fresh water to Mediterranean farms from aquifers in the Sahara