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Asia

  • 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
  • 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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