·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