Ancient Egypt

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Sinai Peninsula


.Sinai Peninsula Italian Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula Italian peninsula
Geography
  • Area: 60,000 km2
  • Coordinates: Google map 30N - 34E
  • Area: 223,000 km2
  • Coordinates: Google map 42N - 13E
  • Climate
  • Extremely hot and harsh arid deserts that receive very little precipitation in any form
  • Mediterranean climate, with mild humid winters, and harm dry summers
  • Rivers and water resources
  • No rivers run though the peninsula - no source of fresh water
  • No natural lakes
  • Few oasis's such as Ain Umm Ahmed and Wadi Feiran, are the only source of life in this otherwise unlivable region
  • Many rivers including the Po (645 km long), the Volturno, the Roman Tiber and the Arno
  • Important lakes such as Como, Lugano and Maggiore
  • Human Settlements
  • For three millennia, Sinai remained sparsely inhabited, serving primarily as a mining region and as a military route between Egypt and the great civilizations of the Fertile Crescent.
  • The majority of the limited population lived along the north coast and the few oasis's
  • 1970 population - 60,000 (1 person per square kilometer)
  • 2007 population - 600,000
  • Important cities and civilizations flourished along the Italian Peninsula.
  • Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples and Milan are examples of historical locations.
  • 2007 population - 59 millions (196 persons per square kilometer)
  • Historical Development
  • Natural border and buffer zone between Asia and the Nile valley
  • Sinai owed its importance to the Egypt's economy for its valuable minerals - Egyptian presence in Sinai dates back from 3000 BC., when they developed the peninsula's copper and turquoise Mines
  • No civilizations or important cultures have originated here.
  • Around 1400 BC, Moses led the Israelites through its "great and terrible wilderness" on the epic journey recounted in Exodus.
  • Land of the Roman Civilization
  • Home of the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries.
  • The Italian peninsula has been of critical importance to human history throughout the ages.
  • Vegetation and wildlife
  • Arid desert
  • Mediterranean agriculture
  • Coniferous forests

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