he economy is based on petroleum- a natural resources where geography (i.e., head and desert) are relatively unimportant. There is, around the Eastern part of the Mediterranean a fertile area known often as The Fertile Crescent. Chances are, despite new advances in agricultural technology, the regions of North Africa and the Middle East are not able to fully sustain the needs of their people. And, some of the agricultural terrain, especially in Turkey and Lebanon are now being turned over to the growth of marijuana plants and opium poppies, yielding far more for the farmers than their r
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