How has climate of the Middle East impacted the development of agricultureandincreased the importance of water
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It's mostly a desert so yeah I would think water and ability to grow anything would be fairly important.\n\nAdmit it.  You want us to help you answer the essay question on your take home exam don't you!!!
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Lots of dry climate stuff. Olive trees, hibiscus, cactus, lots of wild flowers now cause its the end of the wet season (im in Cyprus, its an ugly ugly country by the way). Apart from that, when the dry season comes back, its just rocks and goats.
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There are various methods of agricultural production:\n\naeroponics \naerial topdressing \nagricultural machinery \nanimal husbandry \naquaculture \nbeekeeping \ncrop rotation \nConcentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO, factory farming) \ncomposting \ndairy farming \ndetasseling \ndomestication \nfencing \nfertilizers \ngreenhouse \nharvest \nheliciculture \nhybrid seed \nhydroponics \nIntegrated Pest Management (IPM) \nirrigation \nlivestock \nmarket gardening \nmonoculture \nno-till farming \norganic farming \nplant breeding \nPermaculture \npollination management \nprecision farming \nranching \nseason extension \nseed saving \nseed testing \nshepherding \nsubsistence farming \nsuccession planting \nsustainable agriculture \nterracing \nvegetable farming \ntillage \nweed control \n\n and their tools are \n\nPinpointing the absolute beginnings of agriculture is problematic because the transition away from purely hunter-gatherer societies, in some areas, began many thousands of years before the invention of writing. Nonetheless, Archaeobotanists/Paleoethnobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger seeds, to just after the Younger Dryas (about 9,500 BC) in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Limited anthropological and archaeological evidence both indicate a grain-grinding culture farming along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC using the world's earliest known type of sickle blades. There is even earlier evidence for conscious cultivation and seasonal harvest: grains of rye with domestic traits have been recovered from Epi-Palaeolithic (10,000+ BC) contexts at Abu Hureyra in Syria, but this appears to be a localised phenomenon resulting from cultivation of stands of wild rye, rather than a definitive step towards domestication. It is not until ca. 8,500 BC, in middle-Eastern cultures referred to as Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), where there is the first definite evidence for the emergence of a widespread subsistence economy that was dependent on domesticated plants and animals. In these contexts lie the origins of the eight so-called founder crops of agriculture: firstly emmer and einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, pea, lentil, bitter vetch, chick pea and flax. These eight crops occur more or less simultaneously on PPNB sites in this region, although the consensus is that wheat was the first to be sown and harvested on a significant scale. There are many sites that date to between ca. 8,500 BC and 7,500 BC where the systematic farming of these crops contributed the major part of the inhabitants' diet. From the Fertile Crescent agriculture spread eastwards to Central Asia and westwards into Cyprus, Anatolia and, by 7,000 BC, Greece. Farming, principally of emmer and einkorn, reached northwestern Europe via southeastern and central Europe by ca. 4,800 BC (see, among others, Price, D. [ed.] 2000. Europe's First Farmers. Cambridge University Press; Harris, D. [ed.] 1996 The Origins and Spread of Agriculture in Eurasia. UCL Press).\n\n \nA tractor ploughing an alfalfa fieldThe reasons for the earliest introduction of farming may have included climate change, but possibly there were also social reasons (e.g. accumulation of food surplus for competitive gift-giving). Most certainly there was a gradual transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural economies after a lengthy period when some crops were deliberately planted and other foods were gathered from the wild. Although localised climate change is the favoured explanation for the origins of agriculture in the Levant, the fact that farming was 'invented' at least three times, possibly more, suggests that social reasons may have been instrumental. In addition to emergence of farming in the Fertile Crescent, agriculture appeared by at least 6,800 BC in East Asia (rice) and, later, in Central and South America (maize, squash). Small scale agri
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climate produces seasons which are extremely necessary for the benefit of our world....its like the cycle of life and all that.
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More sunlight, so more rainfall, and plant production, so more animals, so more diversity.
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The normal cycle is (very simplified): rain, transportation to sea, evaporation.\n\nThe main thing that mankind does to change this is after the rain has fallen and before it reaches the sea.  The main thing being irrigation which diverts water from the river into the surrounding land.  Obviously when water is soaked into the ground it cannot evaporate and so the 'residence time' in this part of the cycle is increased.\nBuilding damns and other structures (ie. cities) will also have similar effects by diverting the natural course of a river.\nWith global warming comes another problem.  Obviously the warmer something is the more energy it has.  This extra energy causes an unstable atmosphere leading to increased rainfall in some areas and less in others.  Rising sea temperature, which is also connected to global warming, will increase the rate of evaporation (which is why there are more hurricanes in the Atlantic).
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Searching your specific area will help, but you need to be more specific- are you talking about animal production and husbandry, farming (broadacre/ cereal crops, irrigation, horticulture, viticulture,etc, etc) and agricultural machanics and production or the human resources aspect. Perhaps Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and other government departments  often offer "fact sheets' that can give good overviews in a variety of areas.
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The problem with that is that water wil freeze below 32 farenheit. so it would need a eletric trace(heat trace to heat it up if temp goes below 32) and insulation to keep the heat in. Also, rusting is a major issue which is bound to happen even if the most rustfree material is used. Also leaks are a major issue. Something chemical has to be mixed with water to determine exact location of the leak if one takes place. the oil pipelines in middle east use a chemical, i forget the name, for the same reason. Adding and removing the compund from water may be a major pain. Also another major problem would be collecting the water, how exactly would that be done. Drainage water maybe, but it would be very very hard to collect pure rainfall and transport it. The idea may seem easy but it would involve major reconfiguration of water systems, water collectors, pipelines within existing eastern cities, etc to provide water to the west. Its just not economical to do so. Also pumping stations to clean water at each interval are also expensive to first build and then run.
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most of the biblical events were centered around the Middle East.  I don't know why it was a biblical hotspot, ask God (lol).  Most likely it was because it was near the "cradle of civilization" where Adam and Eve were created.
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the Middle East, which is part of the Asian continent
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Instability in the Middle East existed long before the United States did.
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Soil and climate conditions.
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water beacuse of the long dry season
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How Saudi Arabia looks now is not the same as it looked when the source rock for the hydrocarbons was being laid down. Continents drift, move from north, south, east and west. Just because there is a desert there now, doesnt suggest that there will always be a desert!
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Did drought force them to discover ways to provide food? (did they come up with ways to irragate their crops?) Hope this helps!
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A tropical desert consists of barren land over which rainfall is too limited to support vegetation. So why are such desolate and hostile places, like deserts, important to study? \n\nFirstly, desert studies help us predict possible future changes to the environment and how to avoid damaging it. In his book The Desert of Southeast Arabia, Ken Glennie takes us on a journey back in time to when Arabia was a much greener place, and he explains how global climate made it so barren.\n\nSecondly, in many parts of the world, such as Oman, Saudi Arabia, Europe’s North Sea and the United States, hydrocarbons are found in ancient dune sand reservoirs. Can we unravel the depositional and stratigraphical intricacies of these ancient gas- and oil-bearing reservoirs by studying modern deserts? Ken pioneered the answer to this question with his studies of both modern deserts and the reservoirs of the Permian Rotliegend Red Beds of northwest Europe. \n\nKen started writing this book 10 years ago for students; this is one reason for the extensive Glossary at the back. After many modifications and revisions, his book now provides a different perspective to a well-known topic. Its simplicity, detailed descriptions and illustrations will undoubtedly appeal to students, desert travelers and scientists. Of great value, especially when used in conjunction with studies on the ground, are the satellite images (Landsat) seen here in spectacular colour. None of these images, however, can replace seeing the desert rocks and sediments first hand. In this book, Ken shares his vast knowledge of the Arabian Desert, and exquisite collection of photos taken on the ground and from the air.
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Extremely interesting.  In a small country, which you can drive north to south in seven hours and east to west in 5, you have very diverse geography and vegetation.  The mediterranean is all along the coast with either cliffs or sandy or pebble beaches.  Mountains can be extremely high, which you can reach the top of in two hours of driving from the coast line, Cedar forests are as old as 3,000 years and mentioned in the Bible.  A valley - the Bekaa - between two mountain chains, green and fertile and producing wonderful food.  The coast itself has citrus, olives, salads, and much more.  The mountains and valleys have numerous grains, fruits, grapevines.  Some towns and cities are highly developed, some still have no running hot water.  It can be cold and hot within three hours of driving but there are no abrupt changes of temperature in one town at a time.  Some mountains have snow year round.  There is no desert.  It is a sunny country with almost 350 days of sun a year.  The country has many rivers.