Study Guide for East Asia Final Exam

Use your notebook, textbook, and handouts to review for the final exam. You should know the following information. Your grade will come from your entries in your CRCT survival guide and your notebook entries from the learning centers. You do not have to submit the answers below; this guide is simply a tool for your review.

  1. Early History:
  2. Where did China’s earliest civilizations develop?
  3. What is a dynasty?
  4. Feudalism in Japan: Shoguns and samurai
  5. Great Empires:
  6. Dynasties in China: know the contributions and rise and fall of the Qin, Ming, and Qing
  7. Mongol Empire: Genghis Kahn and the extent of the Mongol empire.
  8. The Silk Road: location and importance.
  9. Japan’s empire building (imperialism) and WWII.
  10. Culture: diffusion/exchange
  11. Confucianism
  12. Buddhism
  13. Daoism
  14. Shinto
  15. Islam
  16. Language / customs
  17. A blend of old and new
  18. Japanese as a homogeneous group
  19. Isolation:
  20. Closed Door Policy in Japan
  21. What areas in East Asia have been “isolated” by geography
  22. Colonialism:
  23. Opening of Japan
  24. Japan’s colonization of Korea
  25. Europeans and foreigners in China and the end of Dynastic Rule.
  26. Hong Kong’s change over from British rule.
  27. Conflict and Change:
  28. World War II: Japan’s destruction and rebuilding.
  29. Communism and the Cold War:
  30. China’s civil wars in the early 1900s
  31. Communist revolution of 1949 in China
  32. Difference between Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China
  33. Competition for the control over Taiwan
  34. Mongolia during and after the Soviet Union
  35. The division of Korea and the Korean war
  36. Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989
  37. Know/locate/explain:
  38. Continent, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, Pacific Ocean, Gobi Desert, Takla Makan, Himalayas, Huang He River, Chang (Yangtse) River, Tibetan plateau
  39. Climate: variety of climate in the region and the role of monsoons.
  40. Key terms/concepts:
  41. Scarcity
  42. Interdependence
  43. Communism
  44. Imperialism
  45. Industrialization
  46. Import / Export
  47. Population pressure
  48. Population density
  49. Subsistence farming
  50. You should be able to answer each of these questions using specific examples from your study of East Asia:
  51. How does where you live impact how you live?
  52. How does the past shape the present?
  53. How does cultural diffusion shape a region?
  54. What factors influence a country’s standard of living?
  55. What role does citizen participation have in government?
  56. What types of governments exist today in East Asia? What form of leadership, legislature, and what is the role of the citizen?