GODZILLA:

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EAST ASIA CULTURE TRAITS DIFFUSE

East Asia

Southeast Asia

Southwest Asia

South Asia

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EAST ASIA WITH EMPHASIS ON:

Japan China (People’s

Republic of China) Korea (North Korea

and South Korea) Taiwan (Republic of

China)

Source: http://www.yourchildlearns.com/online-atlas/japan-map.htm

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JAPAN

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JAPAN’S HISTORY

600 - 800 Chinese cultural influence 1000 -1300 War, Medieval society arises,

shoguns evolve 1600 -1860’s Tokugawa Shogunate,

isolation, foreigners and Christianity were kept out, individualistic culture, emphasis on Shinto belief system

1860’s: Signed trade treaty with U.S. and many more countries began to trade and influence Japan’s culture.

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CHINA

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CHINA’S SILK ROAD: TRADE ROUTES

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CHINA

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences.

After World War II, the Communists under Mao Zedong established strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people.

Today, China has a market-oriented economy which has been very successful.

For many people, living standards have improved and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight.

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KOREA: NORTH & SOUTH©2012, TESCCC

TWO KOREAS

The peninsula’s history reflects that it was mostly an independent kingdom for much of its long history.

Korea was occupied by Japan beginning in 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War. Five years later, Japan formally annexed the entire peninsula.

Following World War II, Korea engaged in a civil war that lasted about three years.

The war was a stalemate (nobody won) so it was divided into two countries. North Korea (communist/dictatorship) and South Korea (free market economy)

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TAIWAN: REPUBLIC OF CHINA

During China’s civil war, especially after WWII, China became a communist nation. People in China fled to the nearby island of Taiwan and established themselves as the Republic of China (democratic-republic)

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