1. Southeast Asia Vietnam Cambodia Myanmar Thailand Laos

3. Cambodia 1975-1979 The Killing Fields – 1975 pop = 8 million – 1979 pop = 5.5 million (25%) 1.3 million killed outright 1.2 million died from starvation and disease Dictator named Pol Pot. If you were intelligent or knew a foreigner, you were arrested and killed

4. Rwanda (Africa 1994) 20 % of the population killed because of different ethnic group (500,000 – 1 million dead) Tutsis and Hutus

5. Bosnia (Europe 1995) 8,000 dead 30,000 removed from their homes Based on religious differences

6. Darfur (Africa 2003 – present) Part of Sudan in Africa Between Arabs and Africans Population 2003 – (6 million) Dead (2004-2008) – between 178,258 and 461,520 Displaced 2.5 million

7. Darfur, Sudan Those displaced are very hungry and few have family members to care for them.

8. Southeast Asia Mandalas – old ways of governing, not really countries. Kind of like drug cartels of today in that they own territory, and have either peace or war with their neighbors over turf.

9. Colonialism Colonialism – European countries came in during the 1500’s until World War 2. Instead of making food for their own people, forced to grow crops for sale in Europe markets, such as bananas, rubber, sugar, rice, coffee Where else did Europeans Colonize?

10. European Colonialism

11. Independence Nationalism came after Japan’s defeat in World War 2 United States was involved because many of the nationalists were also Communists, and we did not like the idea of Communism.

12. Economy 1 Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam Most countries depend on agriculture for income War has depleted the workforce (few men of working age) Little infrastructure (roads, bridges) because destroyed during wars

13. Economy 2 Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand Have higher developed economies than the others. Lots of OIL. They have manufacturing businesses, production of textiles, clothing, and electronics. Service industry such as finances

14. If the gold is the world, where is the blue? Cambodia HDIThailand and Myanmar HDI

15. Culture Religion – Buddhism is widespread – Catholic in Philippines How did it get there? – Islam in Indonesia and Brunei How did it get there? – Some Hinduism and local traditional religions as well. Art – Most destroyed during many wars – Some architecture remains (buildings) – Dance, oral traditions remain.

16. Angkor Wat early 12c

17. Housing Rural areas live in houses on stilts. Why? Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (was tallest in the world until 2003)