1. EAST ASIA

2. China, Mongolia, Taiwan

3. POPULATION DENSITY MAP

5. CHINA Third largest country in area
Largest in population 1.5 Billion (Less than 7 billion on the planet)
All population is in China’s eastern 1/3
Mostly in the NORTH CHINA PLAIN
Western 2/3 is mountainous and desert
Only 10% of land is arable

6. Unique animals
Panda Bear
Two Humped Camels
Tigers
long-eared jerboa

7. CHINA Innovations Farms Silk Fireworks Gun powder
Silk – mulberry leaves
Fishing – aquaculture
Mid-west nomadic herding
Rice & large variety of crops
Rice is an example of intensive agriculture – requires large amounts of human labor

9. AQUACULTURE

10. Interesting Fact of the Great Wall
Prior to its unification 221 BC the wall was a network of seven separate walls
Often called “the longest cemetery on earth”
Over the last 2,000 years approximately 31,070 miles of wall was built. Earth's circumference is only 24,854 miles
12 century the wall was neglected. In A.D and 1223 Mongolia, led by Genghis Khan ruled until the Ming dynasty defeated them. His army was able to step over the wall in some locations

11. 5. The wall can not be view from space
6. The mortar was made of rice flour not bone as some myths say
7. Most of the wall we see today was made by the Ming Dynasty (17th century)
8. It is 25 feet high in some places and ranges from feet wide
9. Numerous temples were built along the Wall for the worship of the war god, Guandi

12. CHINA Landforms Major Rivers Desert Mountain Plain
Yellow (Huang) – northern most
Empties into the Yellow Sea
Called “China’s Sorrow” due to flooding
Yangtze (Chang) – central China
Most fertile
Site of Three Gorges Dam
Desert
Gobi – natural border of Mongolia and north China
“waterless place”
Caused by rain shadow of the Himalayas
Mountain
40 % of China is mountain
Himalaya form a natural southern boundary
Plateau of Tibet is the highest plateau
Plain
North China Plain – Majority of China’s population
Manchurian Plain – Japan set up a Puppet Government

13. Gobi

14. Current Chinese Issues
1. “Three Gorges Dam”
Located along the Yangtze
Good
Help control flooding
World’s largest dam
World’s largest source of Hydroelectricity
Bad
Loss of artifacts
Destroy rare plant and animal life
Displace millions of families
2. Government
Communist (controls everything)
3. Overpopulation

15. Three Gorges Dam

21. Shi’an Terracotta Army

22. MONGOLIA

23. MONGOLIA 1. Capital - Ulan Bator, Ulaanbaatar or U.B.
2. Population – 3 million
3. Gobi desert separates it from China
4. History
Once feared Nomadic warriors. Genghis Khan created the largest empire the world has known. Because of this China built the Great Wall.
Joined U.S.S.R.’s “Communist Block” during the Cold War
Nomadic Herding is the primary economy for most Mongolian

24. TAIWAN Population – 23 mill. Controversy over who controls it
Capital Taipei
Has been under the control of Japan and China. Today they are independent and primarily an exporting and manufacturing country.

25. KOREA

26. KOREA

27. KOREA CONTINUE
Peninsula separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan (or East Sea as it is known in Korea)
Separated into North Korea (communist) and South Korea at the end of WWII. The US joined the Korean War in 1950 as the first phase of the “Containment” of communism.
War ended in 1953 and a demilitarized zone (DMZ) was created at the 38th parallel (38 degrees latitude)
Wildlife has thrived in this area. WHY?

29. KOREA SOUTH KOREA NORTH KOREA Democracy/Free Market Strictly Communist
Called the ASAIN TIGER due to large economic growth
Highly industrialized
Densely populated
Strictly Communist
Struggling economy
Low industrialization

30. JAPAN (Land of the rising sun?)

31. EASTERN ASIAN GEOGRAPHY
JAPAN Physical Geography
Island country made up of four large islands
Honshu is the largest of the four islands
Very mountainous – known for skiing
Climate
Chishima (Oyashio) Current – cold ocean current along the north. Makes summers mild and winters harsh
Japan (Kuroshio) Current – warm ocean current along the south that makes winters mild and summers hot and humid

34. Japanese History
Japan was isolated from the world until 1853 when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay
Political system similar to medieval feudal Europe
Emperor – like a king but viewed as a god
Shogun – powerful warlords
Daimyo – wealthy landlords
Samurai – professional warriors

35. Samurai

36. Japan Modern History continue
On three occasion Japan was saved from Mongol attack (probably cyclones and tsunamis)
Kamikaze – Divine Wind –
Members of the Axis Powers of WWII
Suicide dive bombers
honorable to die - Samurai
U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki

37. Kamikaze

40. JAPANESE EMPIRE WWII

41. Japan Population Solutions