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Arabian Peninsula
Life on the Arabian Peninsula
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Desert Environment | Plateaus,plains. It is hot, dry and harsh. It has sand dunes as well. |
| Desert Adaptations | people adopted using camels for transportation, loose fitting, clothing for heat/ flies - they traded animal products -they put up tents,wool clothing from animals. |
| Oasis Environment | occur in areas where water is trapped underground. The water causes plants to spring up. -vary in size, from a few acres to huge areas. -provide shade, water, food, and other plant life. |
| Oasis Adaptions | -sometimes towns formed around it because people could actually live there. -Nomads became sedentary and they grew crops, like the date palm. -Using the things they grew farmers bartered with the nomads for things like camel hair, milk, and mear. |
| Coastal Plains Environment | -the air is damp and moist, and rain falls regularly -it ends at a series of rocky cliffs -several dry riverbeds cut through the plains and periodically fill with water. -ranges between 5-40 miles inland. |
| Coastal Plains Adaptations | -people built deep wells, dams, and systems to irrigate the land. -people traded with merchants from different places by caravan. Ex. India, East Africa -suitable for farming to grow crops like fruit -fragrant tree sap to make medicine. Ex.myrrh |
| Mountains Enivronment | -rain and elevation Velo. keep temperatures in the mountain cool. -Arabia's mountains rise from 1,000 to 12,000 feet high. -moist winds from the Indian Ocean bring as much as 20 inches of rain each year. -winter,frost may form. |
| Mountains Adaptations | -mountain dwellers lived in houses made of mud brick. -farmers constructed irrigation system/dams. -farmers grew crops like melon/pomegranate -they farmed on the terraces. |
| who are Bedouins | nomads who adapted their live to arid land from the Arabian Peninsula |
| what is a nomad | a person who moves from place to place rather than settling permanently |
| Bedouins organized themselves into groups called clans. what are clans | a group of people related by blood or marriage |
| what did the "clan system" of living provide that was important to the survival of the Bedouins? | security and support in the extreme conditions of the desert, support, trust, trade, and carry more. |
| give 2 ways the Arab people of the Arabian Peninsula had to adapt to their environment to survive | -move place to place -seek water -grazing land for their herds -forming clans |
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