1. Unit 4: South, East and Southeast ASIA
GEOGRAPHY & CULTURE NOTES
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2. SOUTH ASIA: 8 COUNTRIES Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

3. Indian Subcontinent

4. NORTH Himalayas Hindu Kush Karakoram Mountains Khyber Pass
Formed 60 million yrs ago by plates crashing together
Northern divider of Indian subcontinent
Mt. Everest – world’s highest point
Hindu Kush
Khyber Pass
Karakoram Mountains

5. Bodies of Water South – Indian Ocean East – Bay of Bengal
West – Arabian Sea

6. River Systems Indus – mostly Pakistan, to Arabian Sea
Brahmaputra – east, to Bay of Bengal

7. River Systems
Ganges – east, joins Brahmaputra to form delta along Bay of Bengal (sacred to Hindus)
Indo-Gangetic Plain
flooding of Indus & Ganges rivers
largest alluvial plain (rich soil) in the world
most of population lives here

8. Monsoons – seasonal winds

9. Buddhism Not too many Buddhists in present day India
Created by a Hindu prince who was in search of nirvana (Siddartha, c. 500 BCE)
Said way to nirvana lay neither in priestly rituals nor extreme self-denial but in a “middle-way”
He became known as Buddha (“the enlightened one”)
More popular today in East & Southeast Asia

11. History & Religion
Mughal Empire ( ) Muslim elite ruled the Hindu majority in South Asia
Built the Taj Mahal
Replaced by British rulers (the Raj, )
Independence for India led by Mohandas Gandhi (partitioned into Hindu India, Muslim Pakistan; East Pakistan later became Bangladesh)
Kashmir territory

12. Bangladesh

14. Southeast Asia includes:
China (1.3 billion people)
Japan
North & South Korea
Southeast Asia includes:
Indonesia (200 million people, largest Muslim pop)
Vietnam
Philippines

15. East Asia Geography

16. Physical features
Gobi desert

17. Tsunamis
Japan, 2011

19. Kim Jung Un Korea: partitioned after World War II Korean War (1950-53)
North Korea (Pyongyang capital) – communist, like China
South Korea (Seoul capital) - democracy

20. China
Ruled by dynasties (Han, Ming, etc. – Confucianism philosophy) until 20th century
Communist takeover in 1949 (Mao Zedong)
Largest economy today