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Southeast Asia,

South Asia,

Austral and Pacific Realm,

and the Middle East(Lectures 9-12)

April 27, 2014


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FINAL EXAM:

Tuesday May 6

4:006:00 p.m.

ICC Building


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Southeast

Asia


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Southeast Asia Map

Myanmar (Burma)

Thailand

Laos

Vietnam

Cambodia

Philippines

Malaysia

Indonesia

Singapore

Brunei

East Timor


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Geography

Mainland

Melting from Himalayan

Mountains creates rivers

that flow south (Chao

Phraya, Irrawaddy,

Mekong, Red)

River basinssurplus

longstanding

kingships

Maritime

Earthquakes because of

tectonic plate collisions

Fragmentation of

societies


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Thailand (Example from

Mainland SEA) Never foreign occupied

King Bumibolrespected but

getting older

Yellow Shirts (Pro monarchy, middle

class, military, minority)

Red Shirts (rural Northern Thai

majority, poor, rally around Thaksin

Shinawatra)

Yingluck Shinawatra won 2011prime minister elections; but the

yellow shirts provided resistance


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Indonesia and Philippines

(Examples from Maritime SEA)

Indonesia

Over 17,500 islands

Unification process

initiated by Dutch EastIndia company

Sukarno

Philippines

LuzonCatholicism

MindanaoIslam

Conflict unresolved

Borneo

Java

SumatraCelebes

INDONESIA


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Outside Powers in SEA

History of outside influence (Japan, Vietnam War, China)

Senkaku Islands

Spratly and Parcel Islands


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South Asia


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Geography and Effects

Monsoons Tectonic Plate collisionIndia slammed into Asia with a

continent-continent collision

Durand Linemapped by a British secretary, and currently

represents the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, but it is unclear and

not recognized

Khyber PassGap within the Hindu Kush mountain range that

allows for communication between Pakistan and Afghanistan


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Afghanistan and Outside

Control Pashtuns = dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan living on

eastern border, divided by physical conditions

Great Britain (1841, 1880, 1919)

Soviet Union (1979 to 1989)

Mujahedeen opposition

Taliban was a student subgroup of the Mujahedeen

USA (9-11 to present)


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Pakistan

Eastern center of economy and population

Western area is difficult to control and home to Taliban

Pakistan as a way to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan


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India

British Raj (1858 -1947)

1858British government takes control of region from

British East India Company

1947country is partitioned and huge population exchange

Deep religious animosities

1984Indira Gandhi assassination

1942Hindus destroy Mughal Mosque


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Kashmir

1947: Hindu provincial

leader but Muslim

majority

Currently occupied by

forces from India,Pakistan and China

Local Muslim population

is demanding a vote to

determine who the region

belongs to


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Austral and

Pacific Realm


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Agriculture and Movement in

the Pacific Independent development of agriculture based on yam and

taro on the Island of Papua

Austronesians and movement across the Pacific

The sweet potato (Kumara) story

MauPiailug


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Easter Island

One of the most remote islands in the world Within Polynesia island group

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen arrived in 1722

Famous for giant heads


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New Zealand

Indigenous Maori people Slash and burn agriculture

Crosby argumentimpact of Europeans


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Middle

East


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Inequalities in Water and Oil

Water

Anatolian Plateau and Zagros Mountains are highland sources of

water

Tigris and Euphrates

Ataturk Dam

Oil and Gas

Reasons for abundance in Gulf area

Saudi Arabia and Iran


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Side note: Members of the

Organization of Petroleum

Exporting Countries (OPEC) Algeria

Angola

Ecuador Iran

Iraq

Kuwait

Libya

Nigeria Qatar

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Venezuela


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Saudi Arabia

Monarchystarted with King Ibn Saud and alliance with

Sunni-Wahhabis (1932)

Arab

Sunni

Status quo

Pro-U.S.


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Iran

1979 Revolution: Shah Pahlavi

Ayatollah Khomeini (firstSupreme Leader)

Islamic Republic

Persian

Shia

Revolutionary

Anti-U.S.


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Clashes between Saudi Arabia

and Iran In Syria

Sunni majorityarms provided by Saudi Arabia

Bashar al-Assad (Alawite) (~Shia minority government)arms

provided by Iran

In Iraq Sunni population in western Iraq is supported by Saudi Arabia

Iranian support for Shia government


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Further Review

Map Quiz Game Show in Sellinger on April 28th, 6-8pm

Additional review sessions (2:00pm- 3:00pm)

Monday, April 28th, ICC 115 Lectures 6-8

Tuesday, April 29th, ICC 116 Lectures 3-5

Wednesday, April 30th, ICC 116 Lectures 1-2 and 13-14

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