Studied by 32 people
2024
Asia contains ___ of the world’s population
54%
Number of people in China/India combined
2.4 billion
Monsoons are a source of ____
life
Monsoons are a
seasonal reversal of winds
Wet monsoon season
May-September
Dry monsoon season
October-April
Legacies
religion, language, transportation, diet, political boundaries
Main exporter of rice
Thailand
Farming style that produces 75% of rice
Irrigated farming
Farming style that produces 20% of rice
rainfed lowland
Rice needs a ___ and ___ climate to grow
hot and humid
BeriBeri
lack of thiamine, causes eventual heart failure
Most Indonesians are ____
Hindu
Political geography
A systematic field of geography that focuses on the spatial expressions of political behavior
Buffer State Domino Effect
Vietnam fell to communism, then Laos, then Cambodia
The Golden Triangle countries
Laos, Thailand, Burma
The Golden Triangle output
heroin from opium poppies
Pol Pot and Cambodia
Communist leader of Khmer Rouge, killed 2 million people
China’s Population
1.39 billion
China’s one child policy outcomes
More men than women, dramatically curbed population
SouthEast Asia has a _____ climate
tropical
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