South East and East Asia Terry Luong Kenneth Evans

Historical Significance of Great Wall of China: Wanted to keep barbarians out, kept China even more isolated Japanese adaptations: Skyscrapers on gyroscopes and earthquake, tsunami drills Benefits of terraced farming: Makes more land arable by farming on a slope Physical features that contributed to China’s isolation: oceans and mountains

Human Environment Interaction in Southeast/ East Asia Problems: Lack of arable land and tectonic activity Modifications Lack of arable land: Terraced farming Tectonic activity: Strict building codes, disaster drills, skyscrapers on gyroscopes The modification would have to be used in a developed area because the methods are expensive and the infrastructure needed does not exist in a developing area The Three Gorges Dam is both positive and negative, positive: more shipping, negative: floods villages

Religions in East/Southeast Asia The three major religions in the East/Southeast Asia region are Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto Shinto is practiced in Japan, Confucianism in China, and Buddhism in mainly India, China, Laos Major beliefs of each, Buddhism: Nirvana, Confucianism: good morals, Shinto: gates of the underworld and overworld Similarity and differences, similarity: all started in Asia, differences: Not all have a god

Population in East/South East Asia Country: China Problem: Overpopulation Solution: Incentive (money) to not have more then 1 kid (urban) and fines for those who disobey these practices worked to a certain extent as the population did decrease but it instead lead to a extreme boom of men in the population Negative of Overpopulation: Lack of jobs for people Negative of Graying Population: Lack of people for jobs

Communism in East/Southeast Asia Timeline First: Cold War, many countries turned communist Next: Korean War: Separated Korea into North and South Korea, north being communist, south being democratic Last: Vietnam War: Separated Vietnam into North and South Vietnam, north being communist, south being democratic and eventually North Vietnam takes over South Vietnam and Vietnam is now one communist nation. The effects of the spread of communism: the government became communist and controlled everything, people have limited or no freedoms under communist rule, and the economy can’t grow, it’ll be bad.

Economic Development in East/Southeast Asia Two barriers to economic development: Isolation, Lack of Resources Two aids to economic development: Trade, Resources

Conclusion-Southeast/East Asia Problems Political: Communism, Isolationism Social: Overpopulation, No freedoms, Crime Economic: Lack of Arable Land, Command Economy, Lack of Trade Routes

Conclusion: Summaries Political: Communism- Communism creates a dictatorship; it corrupts the government and kills people. Political: Isolationism- Isolationism stops trade and it prevents economic growth. Social: Overpopulation- Nobody has a job, everyone starves; not enough resources to support the population Social: No freedoms- Creates revolts, violent protests, riots Social: Crime- It breaks the law and law enforcement takes drastic measures and hurts innocent people in the process Economic: Lack of Arable Land- Farmers can’t grow enough food to support the population, people starve. Economic: Command Economy- Economy can not grow, government controls all markets Economic: Lack of Trade Routes- Creates isolationism, countries have to pay more money for supplies; tariffs.

Conclusion: Solutions Political: Communism: Democracy- Everyone protests peacefully. Most of general population along with important people. Bill of rights, infrastructure to support democracy. Social: Overpopulation: Incentive plans and one child law- Passing laws. A body of government capable of informing and enforcing laws. Incentive packages, and fines. Economic: Lack of Arable Land: Terraced farming- Informing farmers of new ways to farm. New technology. Informing the agricultural population and making sure they do it. Order: Implementing the plan ,resources, steps taken.

Collaborative Groups-Critique Economic: It sucks, it is proven that populations that work more have more kids than don’t Political: Sounds good it has worked in other places Social: Bad idea, you just created a angry population of men with guns