| Class is Environmental History of the Middle East. Research Question/ Thesis: How did landscape and geography play a role in how the events of the Rif war unfolded and how did the Rif War affect Morocco’s agriculture/ environment? Specifically how did the Rif Mountains play a role in the war? (ex. Riffians/ Berbers had upperhand in navigating mountains) Choose to include any or all of these (and anything you can come up with that ties into environmental history regarding the Rif War): effects of the Rif War/ colonialism in that time period on agriculture/ environment in Morocco, changes in government and its effects (or lack of effects) on the Riffians/ people of the mountains, environmental changes that impacted people’s lives during the Rif War, what people do for livelihood in the mountains and how that changed (if it did) due to the Rif War, etc. |


