East & Southeast Asia Geography

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East Southeast Asia Geography

• Chapters 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.1, 32.2

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Physical Geography

• Mountain Ranges
• Many in the area
• Himalayas
• Separate China from India
• Kunlun Mountains
• West China
• Source of Chinas two great rivers
• Huang He (Yellow) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze)

Kunlun Mountains
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• Landscape of East Asia among the roughest in the
  world.
• Mountains restrict movement of people, goods and
  ideas
• Few flat surfaces
• Some exist
• Plateau of Tibet (Xizang Plateau), Tarim Pendi
  Basin, Taklimakan desert (western China)
• Link to online info about Taklimakan Desert
• Gobi desert
• One of largest in the world
• In China and Mongolia
• Covers more land than Texas and California
  combined!

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• Peninsulas and Islands
• East coast of china has many peninsulas
• Gives China long coastline helps economically
• Islands
• Japan (group of Islands) and Taiwan (claimed by
  China but has declared its independence)
• Developed with less outside influence due to
  physical isolation.

Skydiving near Mt. Fuji, Japan. (Volcanic Islands)
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• River systems
• Huang He (Yellow) -Named due to yellow
• silt the river carries
• Chang Jiang (Yangtze)
• Longest river in Asia - Major trade route since
  ancient times
• Xi Jiang (West River)
• Runs in South China

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3 Gorges Dam
Three Gorges Dam Short Film 3.30 minutes

• Dam across the Yangtze or Chang Jiang
• Add notes from clip.

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Natural resources

• Water resources
• Rivers and seas
• Large energy resources
• Petroleum, coal, natural gas
• Human resources
• More MANPOWER
• than anywhere else in the world!!

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Climate Issues

• Many climate zones.
• Physical Geography Issues
• Typhoons (Wind storms over water)
• Ring of Fire
• Earthquakes

Film concerning new buildings vs. earthquakes in
Japan
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• Weather issues affect many things
• Population distribution
• Building codes
• Look at Tsunamis

Film on Tsunamis in Japan
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• Why would people still live here
• Push-pull factors
• Push factors
• Deadly climate, overcrowding
• Pull factors
• Warm climate, tropical areas, good jobs

• Pacific Rim
• Name given to the countries surrounding the
  Pacific ocean
• An economic and social region

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Population Distribution

• Most people live along the water in Asia

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EAST Southeast Asia Human Geography

• Early Chinese history
• Dynasties series of rulers from the same family
• Shang 1st Dynasty
• Qin Chihn Chin Dynasty
• Built the great wall
• Han Dynasty
• Expanded great wall to protect Silk Road

Terra Cotta Soldiers that were buried next to
Emperor Chin Shi Huangdis gravesite to protect
him in the afterlife.
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• China opens up
• Silk road (trade route) brings diffusion and
  acculturation

Original Silk Road
Other Silk Routes
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• Then Europeans come in to colonize
• Spheres of influence
• Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Japan divide
  China up.
• Boxer rebellion
• Add info from clip as notes.

Image of a Chinese Boxer, 1900, from the
National Archives and Records digital collection
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Political Change in China

• Mao Zedong led a Communist Revolution in China
• Add info from clip as notes.

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• Confucianism
• Founded on ideas of ______________________________
  _
• Beliefs___________________________________________
  ______

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• Taoism
• Founded on teachings _________________________
• Beliefs__________________________________________

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The Yin Yang symbol is a Taoist emblem
representing harmony between the male and female
influences in the world.

• Buddhism
• Brought in from India
• Remember from previous discussions. ?

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China is mostly a rural economy, in spite of its
economic growth.60 of Chinas workers work on
farms.
Economics
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• Industrial Economy
• Chinas economy is GROWING
• Industrial base is in the northeast.
• Shanghai center of Chinese manufacturing

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• After World war II , China and Japan emerged as
  manufacturing leaders
• JAKOTA Triangle
• Japan, South Korea and Taiwan make up the Jakota
  triangle.
• The area has become part of a global economy
• Nations become dependent on each economically

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• One problem the world looks down on in East
  Asian manufacturing is sweatshops

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• Industrialization is also having negative effects
  on the environment, and urban sprawl and poverty
• Space utilization
• Some Asian countries are running out of room!
• How to fix it?
• Build smaller Link to Capsule hotels in Japan
• Build up, not out.
• Landfill especially Japan
• Layering garbage between layers of dirt to
  reclaim land.

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Tiananmen Square

• late 1980s Chinese students protested against
  Chinas Communist govt. , gunned down by their
  own army