South & East Asia Review

1.) What are Monsoons and where do they primarily occur?

2.) What is the Subcontinent & why is there a physical barrier separating it from the rest of Asia?

3.) Be familiar with country locations in South Asia

4.) Where are the dense population centers of India/ S. Asia? Why?

5.) What is the major religion of India? What is the major religion of Pakistan?

6.) Give some of the brief history of India and Pakistan and why they are separate countries?

7.) What issues has India dealt with as its population has grown?

8.) What is Gandhi’s story and legacy? How did he learn to deal with the British?

9.) How has India's economy evolved as a result of Globalization? What is Outsourcing?

10.) How have the people of East Asia modified/adapted to their environment to maximize agricultural
production?
11.) What physical process created much of the landforms of East Asia?

12.) Briefly describe the different regions of China:

- Northeast:

- Northwest:

- Southeast:

- Southwest:

13.) What belief systems, religions, originated in China?

14.) What was the Great Leap Forward program? Who instituted it? What were the results of the Great Leap
Forward?

15.) What are the Special Economic Zones of SE China? Why were they created by the Chinese government?

16.) How can the Chinese language be described?

17.) What area of China has the highest population density? Why?

18.) List policies / regulations that China has instituted to slow down the population growth of China?

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19.) Describe how the Korean War started. How long did it last? What were the results? How can relations of
the Korean Peninsula be described today?

20.) What is North Korea like today?

21.) What is South Korea like today?

22.) How can the physical geography of Japan be described? Culture?

23.) How have the Japanese adapted to their environment and their high population density?