East Asia

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)

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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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Movies from Japan

Many ideas and themes from Japan have become part of the American culture.

Video games

What is manga?

• Manga is a Japanese style of writing.• It is a type of comic book that has become very popular.• Manga style is read from right to left.

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Because of interaction between societies, trade encourages cultural diffusion.

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Anime

Grade 6 Unit 7, lesson 1

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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

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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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