Geography and the land
This major river in China is home to nearly one-third of the population because its water is used to grow rice.
What is the Yangtze River?
North Korea has this type of government, where one leader has total control over the people
What is a totalitarian dictatorship?
This is the most widely practiced religion across the mainland of Southeast Asia.
What is Buddhism?
European countries like Great Britain and France colonized Southeast Asia mainly for this reason.
What is economic gain?
This is the name for a group of islands, like Indonesia or the Philippines.
What is an archipelago?
This is a large, man-made structure built across natural landscapes in China to protect the country.
What is the Great Wall of China?
In this type of government, like the United States or Japan, the power of the leader is restricted by a constitution.
What is a limited government?
Because Southeast Asia has many different religions like Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, we say the region has a "diversity" of this.
What is culture?
These are two examples of "cash crops" or raw materials Europeans wanted from Asia.
What are spices, rubber, tea or silk?
True or False: All cultures in Asia are exactly the same.
What is false. Asia is very diverse.
Japan is an island nation. In 2011, this natural disaster struck the coast of Honshu, causing a massive wave.
What is an earthquake/Tsunami?
In a totalitarian government, citizens often have very few of these.
What is a limited government?
This religion is very common in the Philippines because of Spanish influence in the past.
What is Roman Catholicism?
This country was divided into North and South during a major war involving the U.S., but it is now one united country.
What is Vietnam?
This term refers to the number of people living in a specific area.
What is population density?
Building the Great Wall is an example of humans doing this to the physical environment. (Hint: It starts with an "M").
What is modifying the land?
During the Vietnam War, U.S. citizens used this method to influence the government to bring troops home.
What are protests or demonstrations?
When things like J-Pop, K-Pop, or anime spread from Asia to the United States, it is called cultural ________.
What is diffusion?
This term describes when a stronger country takes over a weaker country to use its resources.
What is colonization?
What is one way the internet has changed culture in East Asia?
What is allowing art and music to spread more easily?
Most people in China live near the Yangtze River because it provides "fertile" land. What does fertile mean?
What is land that is good for growing crops/farming?
This is the main difference between a "Limited" and "Unlimited" government
What is "a leader has to follows the rules/laws?"
Why is English a "predominant" or official language in many Southeast Asian countries today?
What is because of colonization?
How did the "Silk Road" help change the culture of East Asia long ago?
What is allowing trade to spread religion and new ideas?
These bombings effectively ended World Ward II.
What are the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagosaki?