The Impacts of The Impacts of Geography on East Geography on East and Southeast Asiaand Southeast Asia

By Lauren R. Delos Reyes and By Lauren R. Delos Reyes and Emily SprainisEmily Sprainis

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11stst Period PeriodTerraced farming of rice in China. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LongjiTerraces.jpg]

Physical GeographyPhysical Geography

Himalaya Mountains, the Gobi Himalaya Mountains, the Gobi Desert, and the Pacific Ocean have Desert, and the Pacific Ocean have contributed to China’s Isolation.contributed to China’s Isolation.

The Great Wall of China kept invaders out as it stretched thousands of miles across and was a human-made factor to

isolation.

Terraced farming allows unproductive land become arable and it conserves soil as well as making irrigation easier.

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Building huge walls, creating skyscrapers on springs, establishing strict building codes, having tide gauges, and drills are among the adaptations Japan has created to live in the Ring of Fire.

Human-Environment Human-Environment InteractionInteraction

Modifications:Modifications:– Lack of Arable LandLack of Arable Land

terraced farmingterraced farming– Does it work in developed or developing areas?Does it work in developed or developing areas?

Both, cheap method of farming that can be utilized.Both, cheap method of farming that can be utilized.– Tectonic ActivityTectonic Activity

Skyscrapers on springsSkyscrapers on springs– Does it work in developed or developing areas?Does it work in developed or developing areas?

Only developed as this would take place in the city and is Only developed as this would take place in the city and is certainly expensive.certainly expensive.

Clip: Terraced Farming

PopulationPopulation JapanJapan

– Graying PopulationGraying Population A solution:A solution:

– Give women $5,000 upon having their fourth child.Give women $5,000 upon having their fourth child.– This solution may not work because many families are This solution may not work because many families are

moving to the city because Japan is trying to industrialize moving to the city because Japan is trying to industrialize and most families do not have time to raise four children.and most families do not have time to raise four children.

A population pyramid displaying Japan’s population in the year ahead.[http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ja/Age_distribution]

ReligionsReligionsReligion Shinto Buddhism Confucianism

Location Japan Japan, China, Vietnam

China

Beliefs •Spirits and demons of

nature•Deities

•Four Nobel Truths

•Eightfold Path

•Nirvana

•Stresses morals and

political ideas•Respect

ancestors and authority

Differences shared with

other religions

•Developed from Japanese

beliefs

•No god of creation

•No organization

of clergy

Similarities shared with

other religions

•Spread and diffused

through out East and

Southeast nations

•Spread and diffused

through out East and

Southeast nations

•Spread and diffused

through out East and

Southeast nations

A torii, a gate that symbolizes as an entry to the spiritual world.

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CommunismCommunismCommunist

leaders establish

Soviet Union.

December 1922Zedong converts

China into communism.

1949

Vietnam War begins.

1959

People Government Economy

•Under famine•In isolation

•Limited Freedoms

•Spreading communism

•Soviet Union influenced

•Agrarian Society•Limited choice for

consumers•Self-sufficient

lifestyles

Impacts of Communism

Economic DevelopmentEconomic Development 2 barriers to 2 barriers to

economic economic development:development:– in this area, in this area,

isolation is a huge isolation is a huge barrier to barrier to economic economic development development because these because these countries are countries are surrounded on all surrounded on all sides by some sides by some type of physical type of physical barrier.barrier.

– There aren’t There aren’t enough natural enough natural resources in the resources in the area to transport area to transport to the rest of the to the rest of the world.world.

2 factors that aid in 2 factors that aid in economic development:economic development:– technology will aid in technology will aid in

the economic the economic development in these development in these countries, because you countries, because you could use things such could use things such as airplanes and ships as airplanes and ships to ship goods.to ship goods.

– If the location of the If the location of the certain place is near certain place is near water, then it would be water, then it would be wise to use ships to wise to use ships to get goods to new get goods to new places. And in some places. And in some places it would be places it would be better to use things better to use things like airplanes to get like airplanes to get over mountains, over mountains, because it would be because it would be easy.easy.

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Conclusion: ProblemsConclusion: Problems

Economic:Economic:1. Lack of Trade Isolationism has

kept China from trading with

other countries, restricting their

economy2. Lack of

industrializationDue to isolationism,

China is not as industrialized as

some of the major powers in

the world.

Social:Social:1. Graying Population1. Graying Population

In some countries like In some countries like Japan, the Japan, the

population is population is decreasing instead decreasing instead of increasing, and of increasing, and

this causes a this causes a problem for there problem for there will not enough will not enough working people.working people.

2.Overpopulation2.OverpopulationWhen a population is

so massive that there is not enough space, resources,

jobs, etc.

Political:Political:1. Communism

Ideally, communism seems perfect but when brought in to reality, it

often turns into dictatorship due to the

government being corrupted by its massive power.

Consumers have limited choices, they suffer under isolationism, there are limited

freedoms, often being famine is just few of the

outcomes of this.

2. War

Because of the isolation that China faced in

previous years, there have been many wars

Conclusion: SolutionsConclusion: Solutions

EconomicEconomicTechnology is

needed to make trading easier, such as airplanes,

ships, and trains to get through the

land and water, which

is what previously isolated them.

SocialSocialThe

government should

promote reproduction to increase the birth rate in

nations such as Japan that face

this issue.

PoliticalPoliticalThe best way to The best way to

solve the problem solve the problem of communism is to of communism is to

use a different use a different political form of political form of

government. Rarely government. Rarely do those in charge do those in charge actually let their actually let their

power be stripped power be stripped from them, so the from them, so the people would have people would have

to resort to a to resort to a rebellion in order to rebellion in order to

get the desired get the desired results.results.