MONSOON

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MONSOON
ASIA
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MONSOON

• From June to September winds bring heavy rainfall
  to the region
• Highly unpredictable
• Sometimes beneficial,
• sometimes very destructive

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INDIA

• Population in 1947 was 350 Million
• Population is 1.21 billion today
• 1.39 billion expected by 2025

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INDIA

• Thats 180,000,000 more mouths to feed in 13
  years

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INDIA

• The British arrived in 1609 and left in 1947
• The East India Trading Company worked for the
  Kings and Queens of the United Kingdom
• Took over parts of India until the whole country
  was part of the United Kingdom

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British
INDIA

• Include todays
• INDIA
• PAKISTAN
• SRI LANKA
• BANGLADESH
• BURMA

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Jammu and Kashmir

• When the British left they gave Jammu and Kashmir
  to Hindu India and NOT Muslim Pakistan
• Jammu and Kashmirs leaders were Hindus
• Most people in Jammu
• and Kashmir are Muslim

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Pakistans Role

• Pakistan was created for Muslims and Kashmir is
  mostly Muslim
• Pakistan believes it should have control over
  Kashmir
• Pakistani Terrorist groups and Al Qaeda terrorize
  the region of Kashmir

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Pakistan and India have been fighting over
Kashmir since 1947

• Parts of Kashmir are controlled by China too

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Why does this matter?

• China, India, and Pakistan all have nuclear
  weapons

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H I M A L A Y A S

• Mountains between China Nepal, and India
• Mt. Everest at 29,035 feet
• is the highest point on earth

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Too Many People

• Overpopulation leads to degradation of land and
  resources, pollution, and poor living conditions

• China and India face serious problems associated
  with overpopulation in the future

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CHINA

• A leading civilization in ancient and medieval
  times
• China fell into decline in the 19th and 20th
  centuries
• Many of its main ports were taken over by the
  British, Portuguese and Germans

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C H I N A

• The Japanese invasion in World War II and a
  corrupt, inefficient government resulted in the
  Chinese Revolution in 1949
• This removed the Republic of China and replaced
  it with the Peoples Republic of China
• Which is not a republic

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• China is the worlds largest communist country
• And the most populous
• 1,343,239,923 people live in China today

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Chinas one child policy

• Parents must pick up a birth certificate for
  their child before it is born
• Families with one child receive benefits

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Chinas one child policy

• If the family has more than one child it is
  punishable by a tax of up to half the familys
  income
• Unplanned or unauthorized pregnancies must be
  terminated
• Chinas population is now growing at .57

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Chinas one child policy

• Having twins is exempt from the one child policy
• Some minorities are sometimes allowed to have two
• People living in rural areas can have more than
  one child because more people are needed to work
  on the land

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Mongolia

• The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan in
  1206
• Mongolia is the worlds least densely populated
  country
• Approximately 30 of the population are nomadic
  or semi-nomadic

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Mongol Empire

• Mongols migrated quickly throughout Asia and
  Europe
• Used horses and archery to dominate areas quickly

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Indonesia

• Indonesia is an archipelago made of approximately
  (about) 17,508 islands
• Indonesia is rich in Natural Gas and Oil
• Indonesia is a member of OPEC
• Was a Dutch colony during age of imperialism
• Royal Dutch Shell oil company began in the colony
• Captured by the Japanese early in WWII for their
  oil resources

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Indonesia

• Is a part of the Ring of Fire
• Is the largest Muslim country
• Arabic traders brought Islam to Indonesia over
  1,000 years ago

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JAPAN

• Is also a part of the Ring of Fire
• Japan was never colonized by the west
• Trade was prohibited with western countries until
  the 1850s
• Japan modernized and industrialized very fast

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JAPANS EMPIRE

• Japan quickly took control of Korea, Manchuria
  (in China), Taiwan, and took control of parts of
  Russia
• Japans goal was to become the dominant power in
  East Asia
• Push out Europeans and Americans

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JAPANS EMPIRE

• Japans empire continued to grow until the
  Americans, Russians and British defeated Japan in
  1945

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Singapore

• City-State
• The city is the whole country
• Very strict laws in Singapore