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

Benefits of terraced farming: Makes more land arable by farming on a slope

Physical features that contributed to China’s isolation: oceans and mountains

Japanese adaptations: Skyscrapers on gyroscopes and earthquake, tsunami drills

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