SOUTHWESTERN ASIA (also called Middle East plus some Central Asia)
QUIZ Monday, Sept 28 at start of class
COUNTRIES
Afghanistan Armenia
Azerbaijan (in 2 pieces)
Bahrain Cyprus
Georgia India
Iran Iraq
Israel Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan Kuwait
Lebanon Oman
Pakistan Qatar
Saudi Arabia Syria
Tajikistan (Tadjikistan)
Turkey Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Uzbekistan Yemen
WATER ITEMS:
Arabian Sea Persian Gulf
Straits of Hormuz Red Sea
Suez Canal Black Sea
Caspian Sea Aral Sea
Bosporus Straits [near “Dardanelles”]
Lake Van [Van Golu]
Amu Darya River Tigris River
Euphrates River
CITIES, REGIONS, MOUNTAINS, etc.
Mountain ranges: Caucasus Zagros Hindu Kush Karakoram
Chechnya (its main city is Grozny) Baku (Caspian Sea port, Azerbaijan)
Turkey cities: Istanbul, Ankara
Iran cities: Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Shiraz
Saudi Arabia & Persian Gulf cities:
Riyadh, Mecca, Dhahran (Dammam, Ad Dammam), Dubai (Dubayy)
Iraq cities: Baghdad, Kirkuk
Afghanistan cities: Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Mazar-e Sharif
Pakistan cities: Rawalpindi / Islamabad (they blend together),
Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi
Passes: Khyber pass; Karakoram Highway over the Khunjerab Pass.
Pakistan/India region: Kashmir (or Jammu and Kashmir)
Kurdistan or Kurdish culture area (shown in atlas as language area on European language map or ethnic area in Mideast ethnic map, Asia section)
SOUTHWESTERN ASIA STUDY GUIDE: Get your atlas, plus one blank map and label it with a sharp pencil. Going in this order may help you. You will need several of the closeup maps from the atlas.
Keep one blank map clean for studying. I will check your study guyide if you ask Sept. 28.
Make cities a dot in approximately the right place, make rivers a blue line. Figure a way to make the regions, rivers, etc. appear different from the countries. Countries can be upper case, for example, or their borders can be outlined in a color, while regions are striped or colored in.
1. First, label the large countries across the middle: Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India at the right edge. These all have access to the sea.
2. Label 3 bodies of water across the top: Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea
3. 3 water bodies farther South: Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea.
The narrow part of Persian Gulf is the Straits of Hormuz.
4. The Caucausus Mts lie between Black Sea & Caspian Sea.
You can play TAAG in the Caucausus tracing Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia.
Get a feel for the shape of TAAG. Note the 2 A’s in alphabetical order; Azerbaijan is fragmented in 2 parts.
Chechnya is a part of Russia, just North of Azerbaijan, its capital is Grozny. Find it and mark it on your map.
5. You can find KISLIJ in the
fertile crescent: Kuwait, Iraq, Syria,
Lebanon, Israel, Jordan. Draw the
<—shape of KISLIJ here, and label
these countries.
6. Saudi Arabia occupies most of a peninsula, and it’s
surrounded by Yemen (there is only one Yemen now),
Oman, U.A.E., Qatar shaped like a thumb, and very tiny
Bahrain–spelling “YOU QB”. Draw YOU QB’s shape —>
and label all these on your blank map.
7. Label landlocked Afghanistan with its narrow northeast protrusion.
8. Afghans’ Northern neighbors are the
5 “Central Asian Stans” and they are
conveniently in alphabetical order
if you start at the top and travel
clockwise and spiraling inward through
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, & Uzbekistan.
Only Turkmenistan borders
on sizeable water (the Caspian)
and it has the most oil of these.
9. Find atlas maps with the best CLOSEUP views of Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan. Try to follow each of the 3 rivers listed above from their end where they meet the sea (Persian Gulf or Aral Sea) working your way up to their start in the mountains where they are tiny.
Sketch main path of each river and add names to your map.
10. Add Turkey and Iraq cities, and use an Iran map to add 4 Iran cities, and a Saudi Arabia/Persian Gulf map to add those 4 cities.
11. You will need a CLOSEUP of Pakistan to find its road connections, usually a solid black line. People now drive from China to Pakistan using the fairly new Karakoram Highway over the Khunjerab Pass over the world’s biggest mountain range–it was a much tougher trip for most of human history. There are good travel journals on the web by people traveling by bicycle and motorbike over this pass.
The main route between the big cities of Pakistan and Afghanistan, over the Khyber Pass, has seen lots of history & invasions. Not as tough a pass.
Find and label both of these road connections.
12. Use closeup maps of the region to locate everything else listed.
One country at the west end of this group is a Mediterranean island by itself.
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