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    The document summarizes notes from a student on the physical features, climate, and ways of life of the Arabian Peninsula. It describes the peninsula's location near the equator, coastal plains and mountains that divide the plains from desert interiors. The climate is noted to be generally arid with little rain except near coastal areas. Nomadic peoples traditionally traveled the peninsula while sedentary groups engaged in agriculture near water sources like the Nile River.

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    Ms. Nicoll History Unit 1 

     
    Name: Ari and Maya 

    Date: 9-1-17 

    Class: 7th Grade - World History 


     
     
    Main Idea:​ ​Identify the physical features and describe the climate of the Arabian
    peninsula, its relationship to surrounding bodies of land and water, and nomadic
    and sedentary ways of life.
     
    Topic Student Notes

    1. Near the equator; makes it very hot 


     
    2. In the center of the globe 
     
    3. Learn about more than just the peninsula 
     
    4. Geography plays a role in culture 
     
    5. Desert dotted by oases (small bodies of water, 
    plants, and animals) 
     
    6. Coastal plains in southern and western: creates 
    plant life and moist feel (create owais fell). Waves 
    Physical Features of  get smaller and gets soaked into sand. Just enough 
    the Arabian  water to create plant life. 
    Peninsula   
    7. Second you get away from the coast plains you get 
    an desert--such dry air that it evaporates 
     
    8. Mountains divide coastal plains and deserts. Small 
    mountains that keep the costal air from getting to 
    the deserts.  
     
    - Arabian Peninsula 
    - Jordan River 
    - Tigris River 
    - Euphrates River 
    - Nile River 
    - Red Sea 

     
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    Ms. Nicoll History Unit 1 

    - Persian Gulf 
    - Suez Canal 
    - Strait of Hormuz 
    - Sahara Desert 

    1. Persian Gulf  
    2. Suez Canal  
    What Physical 
    3. Strait of Hormuz  
    Features are on the 
    4. Sahara Desert  
    Arabian Peninsula? 
    5. Jordan River  
    6. Nile River 

    1. Desert like and ​arid ​(dry)​, ​receives little rain 


    2. Rarely receives any rain 
    3. Climate=only a small portion is used for 
    agriculture 
    4. Desert, Semi arid, Mediterranean, tiny amount of 
    humid subtropical (hot and sticky), and highland 
    5. Majority of Arabian Peninsula is desert and arid 
    Climate of the 
    6. Primarily ​steppe​ and ​desert​ climate as well.  
    Arabian Peninsula 
    7. Steppe​ (not steppe but hill steep) = geographical 
    term 
    8. Not to much rain (majority) 
    9. Area where rain is and the Nile, is more 
    agriculture and rain 
    10. See more farming = more rain 
    11. Rain and agriculture go hand and hand (together) 

    1. Little Rain 
    2. Steppe 
    Describe the climate 
    3. Arid 
    of Arabia?  
    4. Little Agriculture  
    5. Desert 

    1. Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea 


    Surrounding Bodies 
    2. Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Nile 
    of Land and Water 
    River, Jordan River, Tigris & Euphrates Rivers 

    1. Red Sea 
     
    Name 5  2. Black Sea 
    surrounding bodies   
    of water.  3. Tigris and Euphrates Rivers 
      
    4. Caspian Sea 

     
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    Ms. Nicoll History Unit 1 

     
    5. Nile River 

    Nomadic Ways of 


     
    Life in Arabia 

    1. Nomadic people travel from one place to another 


     
    Detail the nomadic  2. This people either belong to hunting and gathering 
    way of life on the  societies or pastoral societies 
    Arabian Peninsula   
    during the Middle  3. The Nomadism becomes mandatory 
    Ages.   
    4. Nomades usually build small tents once they find a 
    place to settle temporarily 

    Sedentary Ways of 


     
    Life in Arabia 

    1. Sedentary lifestyle or else sedentism can be 


    defined as a society or way of life where people 
    are permanently settled in one place, without 
    Describe the  traveling from one place to the other. 
    sedentary way of  2. For sedentary societies, it is vital to find fertile 
    life on the Arabian  land to settle down so that they can grow plants 
    Peninsula during  and also raise livestock. 
    the Middle Ages.  3. Their settlements are much more permanent and 
    include houses, storage buildings, etc.  
    4. They also need preservation methods and storage 
    techniques. 

       
     

     
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