0. EAST ASIA

1. Bell Ringer: Can you label China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan

2. Landforms
East Asia stretches from the western provinces of China to the eastern coast of Japan.
Mongolia
Taiwan
N. Korea
South Korea
East Asia include high mountains, vast deserts, cold climates, and Pacific waters.

3. Landforms Mountains and Plateaus
Mountains have limited contact between China and other parts of Asia.
Kunlun Mountains: Source of River water in Asia
Qinling Shandi Mountains divide the Northern part of China from the South
River Systems
Huang He, Chang jiang, and the Xi Jiang have all been critical to the development of East Asia
They provide crop irrigation, hydroelectric power, and transportation.

5. Human Environment Interaction
The Three Gorges Dam: will help control the flooding of the Chang Jiang River. (the 3rd longest river in the world)
Generates power
Allows ships to sail into China
This is the biggest dam in the entire world, cost 37 billion dollars to build.
13 cities, 140 towns, and more than 1,600 villages have been submerged under the world's largest reservoir. An official count of 1.3 million people were relocated.
By shifting a significant mass of water, the dam will literally SLOW THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH

6. China Because of China’s geography it has followed its own direction.
In it’s early history, China was ruled by dynasties.
Dynasty is a series of rulers from the same family.
Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, Qing Dynasty,
Life sized soldiers buried with Shi Huangdi (Qin Dynasty)

7. Great Wall
China was attacked by invaders from the steppes of Central Asia.
The Chinese built and extended the Great Wall over many centuries in an attempt to keep out invaders from Mongolia.

8. Nationalists vs. Communists
By the 1900’s, people in China wanted to form a republic. This led to the formation of the Nationalist Party.
Another party known as the Chinese Communist Party also became powerful during this time.
The two parties fought for control of China.
In 1949, Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist party, took control of what is now known as The People’s Republic of China.
The Nationalists in China fled to Taiwan.

10. The Koreas The Ancestors of Koreans today probably migrated from China
Korea was united under dynasties for hundreds of years until Japan took over in
The Japanese continued to rule Korea until they were defeated in World War II
After the war the Soviet Union controlled North Korea and the United States

12. North Korea and South Korea
In 1950, Korean troops from the North invaded South Korea.
US and South Korean troops were able to push North Korea to the 38th Parallel, that still divides North and South Korea today.
In 1953, a treaty was signed that officially divided the Communist North Korea from the Democratic South Korea.