East Asia Physical Geography / Physical Map-The Himalaya Mountain Range serves as a boundary between East and South Asia .China’s climate has a subtropical climate because of the winds coming off the Pacific Ocean, and its latitude. China’s Agricultural Production - Double Cropping, the land is so fertile there's no need to wait after harvesting crops to replant another. Two can be growing at the same time Importance of Rice & Population rice can feed twice as many people than wheat very beneficial to China's population problems   Impact of Three Gorges Dam-It is the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind.  Increases the river's navigation capacity, and reduces the potential for floods downstream by providing flood storage space has flooded archaeological and cultural sites and displaced some 1.24 million people, and is causing significant ecological changes, including an increased risk of landslides. Mongolia Population & Economics- very cut off, a poor low population country that makes a great barrier to china

Revolution Political Change - Civil War Sides & Outcome - communists won, mao came into power and sun-shek retreated to Taiwan The Great Leap Forward - 2 five year plans that ultimately failed due to lack of initiative Iron Rice Bowl - financially stable jobs Cultural Revolution - Mao wanted lots of propaganda to cover his failures.One Child Policy - a policy that limited population growth dramatically T****iananmen Square - a military crackdown on student protests resulting in unknown casualties Xinjiang / Uighurs (Wee-Geerz) - a minority in china that is facing genocide Importance of Tibet Control - It makes a political statement about china's control Special Economic Zone - “Free market but only where it benefits us”

Explain One Country / Two Systems The first noted mention of "one country, two systems" as a concept is believed to be a proposal from Deng Xiaoping to promote Chinese unification over the separated territories held by the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government of the Republic of China across the Taiwan Strait.

Connection to China / History - used to be apart of china until the civil war when the Republic of China fled to form their own democracy

Korean Culture / People - North korea has a strict policy of staying out of and overall being disconnected from the world at large, while south korea has a good farming economy   History - had a civil war splitting it into two (cold war) ,Korea’s location has led to multiple invasions by other countries of East Asia (prior to post-WWII) “Shrimp among whales” North Korean Leaders- Kim ll Sung, Kim Jung ll, Kim Jung Un

Sun Yat-sen - China’s first non-dynastic leaderProvisional government with Senate, elected-President, plans for constitution Chiang Kai-shek - Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, which later fled to Taiwan after the civil war. Mao Zedong - won the civil war and created the great leap forward and initiated a large propaganda campaign including reeducation camps and public punishment. Red Guard - Young members of Mao's propaganda that punished anyone who seemed against his beliefDeng Xiaoping - Created the one child policy (1979). Began economic reform (1980’s) that changed China’s economy from a strict command economy to one with more capitalist ideology Xi Jinping- current president of china Kim II Sung - which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. Kim Jong-il - the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. Kim Jon-uns father Kim Jong-un - Current leader of North Korea, has developed nuclear warfare

Shintoism- Originated in Japan, the foremost Shinto deity is Amaterasu, the sun goddess and daughter of Izanami and Izanagi, the creator gods of Japan.  Amaterasu is considered ruler of the heavens.she is still depicted as the sun on the Japanese flag. Shinto worship is conducted at shrines, in which the gods are believed to live, and whose sacred boundary is marked by the torii gateway, traditionally made of three pieces of wood, which symbolizes the right entrance to the sacred way of the gods Shintoism stresses purity, especially cleanliness of the body, and obedience.  Shintoism makes little of life after death. Taoism-individuals should contemplate nature and lead balanced lives in tune with nature.  Taoism teaches that harmony comes from balancing the opposite forces of nature, called yin and yang.aozi taught that it is impossible to have good without bad, beauty without ugliness, or pleasure without pain.  Because Taoists see good and bad as connected, they try to accept both, neither bragging about good fortunes nor complaining about bad fortune.  Taoism teaches that humans should see themselves as part of nature. And not find satisfaction within materialistic ideals Confucianism-The Confucian code of conduct stressed virtues (good actions), It also established five basic relationships that created a hierarchical society: (1) ruler and subject, (2) parent and child, (3) husband and wife, (4) elder sibling and younger sibling, and (5) friend and friend.