Undergraduate Honors Thesis
Along the Shatt: An Environmental and Cultural History of Development in British Iraq, 1908-1932 Public Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/g445cf640
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In 2014, the Islamic State controlled nearly 40% of Iraq’s territory. The way that the jihadist group attracted membership from the local tribes of Iraq was not solely through religious extremism. Instead, they appealed to the country’s struggling farmers.1 Record-low rainfalls coupled with water projects in Syria and Turkey diminished the water available along the two major rivers of Iraq: the Tigris and the Euphrates. What is taught as the ‘Fertile Crescent’ in highschool world history classes had become a place untenable for most farmers. The impoverishment as a result of this agricultural destitution made the resource poor communities of Iraq ripe for extremist recruiting.
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