- Geography:
- Vietnam is in southeastern Asia, it borders China to the north and Cambodia to the west. To the south and east it is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.
- Korea is next to China and Japan. It is a peninsula which extends southward.
- Indonesia is in southeastern Asia and is an archipelago between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
- Terrace Framing- a series of step-like benches supported by either sod or stone walls.
- Monsoons- seasonal winds that occur every summer in southern Asia.
- Mongol Empire
- Asian empire that stretched across all of Asia
- covered Korea, China, Russia, the Middle East, and India
- Began in 1206
- Genghis Khan was the ruler of the Mongols
- Genghis Khan unified the Mongol people
- Kublai Khan (the grandson of Genghis Khan) became the ruler after Genghis died
- Kublai continued the conquest of China
- After Kublai died, the empire fell apart
- Korean War:
- caused by the division of Korea into North and South Korea
- China and North Korea v. South Korea, US, Britain, Canada, Australia
- Ended in an agreement on July 27, 1953
- Kurds:
- a Middle Eastern minority group that lives in South west Asia.
- most are Sunni Muslims
- a Middle Eastern minority group that lives in South west Asia.
- Tamils- south Indian peoples and their languages.
- Sikhs-A religion combining the practices and beliefs of Hinduism and Islam.
- Nationalism of Cambodia
- Pol Pot was the dictator of Cambodia between 1975 and 1998
- He was responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Cambodians
- Khmer Rouge was a Cambodian communist group led by Pol Pot
- Vietnam War
- in the 1950's the US started to send troops to Vietnam to fight against communism which was taking over Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh- a nationalist and a communist in Vietnam
- practiced guerrilla warfare to beat the French and the US in the Korean War
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