Michaela Kozar-King Period 2. #8 S.

E Asia Study Guide

World Geo.

Define: a. Buffer Zone-a country or set of countries separating ideological or political adversaries. b. Shatter belt-Region caught between stronger, colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals. c. Insular region-a region of islands d. Spice Islands-a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly e. Anamese-Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. f. Mainland-is a name given to a large landmass in a region g. Insular region- a region of islands h. Domino theory- The idea that political destabilization in one country can lead to collapse of political stability in neighboring countries, setting off a chain reaction of collapse. i. Transmigration - the now-emded policy of the Indonesian government to induce residents of the overcrowded core area island of Java to move the country's other islands. 1. Islam spread to southeast asia through the Indian traders. They came from the west and settled colonies on Souteast Asian shores. There became more Arab traders which increased the number of followers in this region. 2. 3. The Sultan of Brunei is the wealthiest man alive because of his total control of the countries national finances and due to Bruneis oil revenues. 4 . Colonial Sphere French sphere British sphere Area yielded by Thiland Colonies Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Myanmar, Malaysia Brunei Thiland,

Netherlands sphere Spanish sphere

Indonesia and (Spice Islands) Philippines

5. The Asian Tigers include: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. All of these economies started off as newly industrialized and maintained high growth rates into becoming advanced economies. 6. a. delimitation: drawing boundary on an official map EX. b. demarcation: process of building walls, fences, and other barriers using map. c. antecedent: existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in d. subsequent: developed contemporaneously with the evolution of the

major elements of the cultural landscape through which it passes. e. superimposed: placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape. f. relict: ceased to function but the imprint of which can still be detected on the cultural landscape.
8a. a. Compact State- a state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all direction b. Protruded State- A type of territorial shape that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main body of the territory c. Elongated State-A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape. d. Perforated State-A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state. e. Fragmented State-A state whose territory consists of several separated parts, not a contiguous whole. The individual parts may be isolated from each other by the land area of other states or by international waters.

7. State Morphology: 1. compact state- Hungary 2. protruded state- Greece 3. elongated state-Chile 4. fragmented state- Azerbaijan 5. perforated state-Italy 8b. Tsunamis threaten Jakarta. 9. . The significance of the Battle at Dien Bien Phu was that the French were defeated by the Viet Minh rebels and ended Frances involvement in Vietnam.

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Colonizing Countries

Countries Colonized

British

Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Myanmar,

French

Cambodia , Laos, Vietnam,

Dutch

Indonesia

11. Thailand is the leading nation in the mainland region because it has helped with the Pacific Rims development, Bangkok is the largest mainland urban center (prominent city), the population growing second slowest in realm, and it is a constitutional monarchy. 12. What limits the economic success of Vietnam includes, the limited foreign investment and the continual communist political system. Vietnam is not a leader like China and the economy has not had market change. The attention stayed on communist statism, and not on economic reform. 13. Singapore is an entrepot pot because its port has become one of the busiest around. It refines a lot of crude oil from Southeast Asia , and ships it to the rest of Asia. Imports and exports of rubber, (Indonesia) rice, machines, and automobiles come through here. Singapore meets all the requirements of an entrepot having goods stored, shipped, and transshipped. 14. Indonesias slogan Diversity in Unity means that even though there are over 250 languages spoken, countless religions practiced, and many ethnic backgrounds, the whole country comes together and uses its unique skills to better the overall aspect of Indonesia. Map Study: 1. Laos is landlocked and does not have the coastal access that the rest of the region does. 2. Borneo is made up of Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia

3. Indochina: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam 4. Spice Islands