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Human Geography of Southeast A sia

Human Geography of Southeast A sia. People History Religion Economics. Indonesia is the 4 th largest country in the world. The island of Java is very densely populated. Singapore is the most dense because of its small land size and 5 million people. Colonial Colonization & Trade.

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Human Geography of Southeast A sia

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  1. Human Geography of Southeast Asia • People • History • Religion • Economics

  2. Indonesia is the 4th largest country in the world. • The island of Java is very densely populated. • Singapore is the most dense because of its small land size and 5 million people.

  3. Colonial Colonization & Trade • Important in Trans-Pacificshipping • Spain - Philippines 1571-1898 • Spanish-American War ended Spanish control • Dutch East India Company - Indonesia 17th century to 1949 • Spice Islands • British - Burma (Myanmar) & Malaysia) • France - Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) until 1950’s • ALL INTERUPTED BY JAPANANESE IMPERIALISM UNTIL 1945. • AFTER THE WAR, WESTERN NATIONS HELPED MANY COUNTRIES GAIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE

  4. The Cold War in Southeast Asia • Vietnam • Once the French were defeated by the Vietnamese in the 1950’s, a civil war divided the country into a communist North (backed by the Soviets); and an emerging republic in the South (backed by the U.S.) • Threats of communist aggression against the South in the early 1960’s led the U.S. to send in military advisors until it escalated into a full-fledged war. • Some 58,000 U.S. soldiers and over 2 million Vietnamese would die before the war officially ended in 1975. • The communist Vietnamese under leader Ho Chi Minh would overrun and defeat U.S. and South Vietnamese forces uniting Vietnam as one country with a communist government.

  5. Cambodia and Pol Pot • Extreme Marxist Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge would go on spree of genocide in an attempt to re-educate an entire population to an agrarian communist philosophy in the late 1970’s. • 1/3 of the Cambodian population would die. Many of which in working death camps known as “the killing fields”. • Pol Pot has been compared to both Hitler and Stalin. http://youtu.be/jtn7ar95NYY

  6. Myanmar (Burma) • A military dictatorship emerged after independence from the British to squelch democratic thought and prevent modernization in the country. • Religious tensions persist between Buddhist and Muslims. Ethnic Rohingya Muslims have been persecuted as well as other groups like the Karen agitating for my rights and control. • http://youtu.be/rLlh2WpTqj0 • Human and Political Rights activist Aung San Su Kyi became a global icon as she remained under house arrest for nearly 20 years. She is now a member of Parliament there as the military has begun opening to democratic ideals.

  7. Aung San Su Kyihttp://youtu.be/1_IjNKT_T5o • Nobel Peace Prize winner • Father was an early leader after independence • Many years under house arrest by Myanmar military government. • Parliament member today • Movie: The Lady • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1802197/

  8. Bouncing Around the Region • East Timor separates from Indonesia in 2002. • Thailand’s government has been ousted and still unstable. • Laos remains the poorest with strong socialist rule. • Sultan of Brunei imposes harsh sharia penalties. • Vietnam and China clash in the South China Sea.

  9. Religion in Southeast Asia • Religion • Buddhism dominates northern SE Asia • Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia • Islam dominates Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Mindanao of Philippines • Christianity in the northern islands of the Philippines • Moro Islamic Front has been violent in attempting a separate state.

  10. From Primary to Teritiary • Subsistence intensive rice farming • Tourism • Oil and Gas • oil in Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei • South China Sea disputes • Manufacturing & labor source for the developed world • Competing with China • Strategic trade center (entrepot) Singapore • http://youtu.be/xRvbrzIyV9E

  11. ASEANhttp://youtu.be/aiQhqN-NdQc

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