1. South East and East Asia
Terry Luong
Kenneth Evans

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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