1. ©2012, TESCCCGrade 6 Unit 7, Lesson 1

2. East Asia Southeast Asia Southwest Asia South Asia ©2012, TESCCC

3.  Japan  China (People’s Republic of China)  Korea (North Korea and South Korea)  Taiwan (Republic of China) Source: http://www.yourchildlearns.com/online-atlas/japan-map.htm ©2012, TESCCC

4. Source for Images: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the- world-factbook/wfbExt/region_eas.html ©2012, TESCCC

5.  600 - 800 Chinese cultural influence  1000 -1300 War, Medieval society arises, shoguns evolve  1600 -1860’s Tokugawa Shogunate, isolation, foreigners and Christianity were kept out, individualistic culture, emphasis on Shinto belief system  1860’s: Signed trade treaty with U.S. and many more countries began to trade and influence Japan’s culture. ©2012, TESCCC

6. Source for Images: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world- factbook/wfbExt/region_eas.html ©2012, TESCCC

8.  For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences.  After World War II, the Communists under Mao Zedong established strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people.  Today, China has a market-oriented economy which has been very successful.  For many people, living standards have improved and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight. ©2012, TESCCC

10.  The peninsula’s history reflects that it was mostly an independent kingdom for much of its long history.  Korea was occupied by Japan beginning in 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War. Five years later, Japan formally annexed the entire peninsula.  Following World War II, Korea engaged in a civil war that lasted about three years.  The war was a stalemate (nobody won) so it was divided into two countries. North Korea (communist/dictatorship) and South Korea (free market economy) ©2012, TESCCC

11. During China’s civil war, especially after WWII, China became a communist nation. People in China fled to the nearby island of Taiwan and established themselves as the Republic of China (democratic- republic) ©2012, TESCCC