Mexico: The Yucatán Peninsula The Yucatán Peninsula is located in southeastern Mexico‚ which separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico‚ on the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The Yucatán Peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec‚ a northwestern geographic divider separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America. The Yucatán Peninsula comprises of the Mexican states of Yucatán‚ Campeche‚ and Quintana Roo; the northern part Belize; and Guatemala’s
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Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab nation in Middle East Asia; Saudi Arabia has a population of more than 28 million and has an area of approximately 830‚000 square miles. And has an oil-based economy with strong government control over major economic activities. Saudi Arabia possesses townie five percent of the world’s proven petroleum reserves. When Saudi government signed agreement with standard oil of California (socal)‚ allowing the company to explore Saudi Arabia for oil after a long search for
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During the play‚ Prince Hamlet has a group of people preform another play depicting his father’s murder‚ which prolongs Hamlet and explains to the other characters what had happened to his father. This is similar to what Shahrazad is doing in The Arabian Nights. The play that Hamlet put on had a more direct approach than the stories Shahrazad
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invaders[3]. Lord George Nathaniel Curzon‚ viceroy of India in 1898 predicted that future great game would be played in Middle East (ME) and Central Asian Region (CAR)[4]. Countries having abundance of oil‚ more popularly known as black gold‚ exists in Arabian Sea‚ an indentation of Indian Ocean[5]. Many littorals are notorious for political instability and various other issues of great concern to major world powers[6]. Persian Gulf has been so dear to US that President Nixon often described it as an American
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Summary The “Article Arabian Oasis City: The Transformation of ’Unayzah ” by Cole and Altorki is quite an interesting article that depicts the social change that took place in the Middle East after the region discovered the boom of oil in the mid-70s. Amid the first anthropological study in the urban community in the Saudi‚ the Arabian Oasis City is one of those studies. Based on the observation and interviews from the participants (men and women)‚ the author was able to take data and able to analyze
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The Silk Road was a major pre-modern trade route‚ which linked the east with the west along a major land route and by land-based methods of transportation. The overarching connection with historical kingdoms and empires is traditionally based on the movement of silk and other luxury goods from China to the Roman Empire and throughout the Mediterranean. The effect of this trade brought about a major internationalization of trading partnerships with China‚ India‚ and other nations that would connect
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Around 710 C.E. a few Islamic Arab groups began to settle on the Iberian Peninsula. These Islamic invaders were known as the Moors or Hispano Musulmanes. For 800 years the Moors were in control of the Islamic Iberia‚ known as Al-Andalus (“Arab Influence”). This Muslim territory conquered is now known as Spain and the southern parts of Portugal. This period of time was the Golden Ages in Spain. While Spain was advancing and ahead of the other countries‚ Europe was stuck in the Dark Ages. In 1492‚
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Not your average bedtime story The Arabian Nights is a book with no author its tales immerge from the trade routes and centers of the Middle East. A thousand nights and a night refers to one story that is wrapped around others and is an assembly of wonder‚ tales of magic‚ mysticism‚ eroticism and comedy. It’s a book of dark tales and ruthless men in ancient times. Women were not valued only punished if they did wrong to their men. The very beginning of this web of tales starts with King Shahryar
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transportation led them to the development of bridges‚ tools‚ and boats made of balsa wood. Central America’s land is inhabited by two civilizations with different views on trade. Mayan government took little control over trade in the Yucatan Peninsula. Merchant’s independent growth influenced a disproportionate share of wealth therefore causing social tensions‚ foreshadowing Aztec conquer.Because the Aztec government took a different approach‚ they were able to dominate over the Mayan population
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The magic of the Arabian Nights by Wendy Doniger The original‚ authentic‚ real Ur-text of the Arabian Nights (aka Alf Layla wa-Layla‚ or the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights‚ or just the Nights) is a mythical beast. There are far more than a thousand and one nights‚ for the thirty-four-and-a-half stories in the fourteenth or fifteenth century “core” body of the Nights were soon supplemented by other tales in Arabic and Persian‚ from the culture of medieval Baghdad and Cairo‚ and then in Hindi
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