Transcript East & Southeast Asia Geography

East & Southeast
Asia Geography
Chapters 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.1, 32.2
Physical Geography
 Mountain Ranges
 Many in the area
 Himalayas
 Separate China from India
 Kunlun Mountains
 West China
 Source of China’s two
great rivers
 Huang He (Yellow)
and Chang Jiang
(Yangtze)
Kunlun Mountains
 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!
 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 it’s independence)
 Developed with less outside influence due to physical isolation.
Skydiving
near Mt.
Fuji, Japan.
(Volcanic
Islands)
 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
3 Gorges Dam
 Dam across
the Yangtze
or Chang
Jiang
 Add notes
from clip.
Three Gorges Dam Short Film 3.30 minutes
Natural
resources
 Water resources
 Rivers and seas
 Large energy resources
 Petroleum, coal, natural gas
 Human resources
 More MANPOWER
 than anywhere else in the world!!
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
 Weather issues affect many things
 Population distribution
 Building codes
 Look at Tsunamis
Film on Tsunamis in Japan
 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
Population Distribution
 Most people live along the water in Asia
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
Huangdi’s gravesite to protect him
in the afterlife.
China opens up
Silk road (trade route) brings diffusion and acculturation
Original Silk Road
Other Silk Routes
 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
Political Change in China
 Mao Zedong led a Communist Revolution in China
 Add info from clip as notes.
 Confucianism
 Founded on ideas of _______________________________
 Beliefs_________________________________________________
 Taoism
 Founded on teachings _________________________
 Beliefs__________________________________________
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. 
Economics
China is
mostly a
rural
economy,
in spite of
its
economic
growth.
≈60% of
China’s
workers
work on
farms.
 Industrial Economy
 China’s economy is GROWING
 Industrial base is in the northeast.
 Shanghai = center of Chinese
manufacturing
 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
 One problem the world looks down on in East
Asian manufacturing is sweatshops
 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.
Tiananmen Square
 late 1980’s Chinese students protested against China’s
Communist govt. , gunned down by their own army