Three major Tectonic plates converge in Western Asia, the African, Eurasia, and Arabian plates. The boundaries between the tectonic plates make up the Azores-Gibraltar Ridge, extending across North Africa, the Red sea, and into Iran. The Arabian Plate is moving northward into the Anatolian plate (Turkey) at the East Anatolian plate, and the boundary between the Aegean and Anatolian plate in eastern Turkey is also seismically active.
Much of what led people to Southwest Asia (Middle East) was the fact that it was the fertile crescent. There was good farmland, and so a good place to live, eat, and make a living.
Oil and Tea are the 2 most valuable Natural Resources in Southwest Asia
drugs
Most of the population in Southwest Asia is located where there is water.
oil
petroleum
Southwest Asia
because most people in southwest Asia are abolitionists.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
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North Africa and SouthWest Asia has served as the crossroad for the people