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NA CB
FJ EDP
A Y
G
JAPAN5 letters
AI LY
BB MSA
A D
C
MALAYSIA8letters
AR DBCE ALS
I B
F
ISRAEL6 letters
YR EA
AC UKD
T B
C
TURKEY6 letters
NT HF
UB OAH
J B
P
BHUTAN6 letters
AI FC
GV NHB
K D
T
CHINA5 letters
KT OBOR HAD
N R
E
North Korea 10letters
KG LO
OO INA
M P
X
MONGOLIA8letters
VT EA
NI ZMO
V K
P
VIETNAM7letters
PEOPLE
LANGUAGE
RELIGION
People
Asia has a cultural heritage of great diversity.
4000B.C. urban life & civilization developed in Mesopotamia.
3000 B.C. at Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley.
2000 B.C. Chinese culture.
5 Major Cultural Regions
Recognized in Asia:
Southwest Asia(Islamic)
South Asia (Indic)
East Asia (Sinic)
Southeast Asia
Northern & Central Asia
(interior)
SOUTH
WEST
Dry belt of desert and semi-desert lands
( Eastern Mediterranean- Afghanistan). Linked with North
Africa and near Middle East or Arab World.
Non-Arabs constitute a majority of the population in Iran, Israel, & Turkeys.
SOUTH
WEST
SOUTH
WEST
Development of early agriculture in Mesopotamia
Unified by Islam in 7th century.
Christians in Syria, Armenia & Lebanon, and Jews mainly in Israel.
SOUTH
ASIA
SOUTH
ASIA
Located on the Indian subcontinent & dominated by India.
Culture dates from about 1500 B.C. , when Aryans invaded northern India.
Vedic religion merged w/ Indigenous customs & beliefs to produce Hinduism.
6th century B.C. Buddhism founded in India.
EAST
ASIA
EAST
ASIA
Culture developed by the ancient Shang dynasty about 1500 B. C.
100 B.C. East Asian culture religion ( modern China);
(400 A.D) began to move southward into Vietnam, and reached out to Korea and Japan.
EAST
ASIA
Social organization & structure are strongly influenced by ancient Chinese concepts
Ancestor worship; Confucianism, Japanese Shinto and Taoism and Chinese Buddhism.
SOUTHEAST
ASIA
SOUTHEAST
ASIA
Indigenous peoples of this region were pushed from lowlands into isolated hill areas by migrants from China& the rest of Asia (2, 500 years ago).
Buddhism is the dominant religion.
Islamic brought by Arab traders 12th century A.D., by British, French, Dutch, Spanish and Americans.
NORTH
&
CENTRAL
ASIA
(Asiatic Russia). In 17th century Russians brought European influences.
Occupied by great variety of different tribal groups; European Russians about 40% of population of former Soviet Asia.
Minorities in southern include the Buryat, Kalmyk, and Chukchi.
NORTH
&
CENTRAL
ASIA
Central (inner) Asia is made up of 5 former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Isolated by high mountains or broad dessert.
Indigenous peoples : Mongols, Tartars, Tungus and Yakuts.
NORTH
&
CENTRAL
ASIA
2/3 of all Asian people belonging to Mongoloid group.
Han Chinese-largest ethnic group that constitutes about 94% of the total population of China. ( Mongols, Uigurs, Huis, Zhuangs &Tibetans)
Japanese- second largest Asian group
LANGUAGE
1. Chinese is the language spoken by more than one billion in China, Southeast Asia, & other parts of the continent. Mandarin Chinese & distinctive dialects like Cantonese, Wu, Min, & Hakka.
LANGUAGE
2. Hindi, spoken by more than 215 million people ; spoken mainly in northern India & Pakistan.
LANGUAGE
3.Arabic, spoken mainly in Southwest Asia.
4.Russian, widely spoken and used as a second language in former Soviet Asia.
RELIGION
Major religions in Asia are:
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
RELIGION
Hinduism
Has about 520 million followers; main religion of India.
RELIGION
Has an estimated 430 million adherents in Asia and it is the principal religion in Southwest Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, & Indonesia.
Large Muslim minorities exist in Philippines and Central Asia.
Islam
RELIGION
Originated primarily in India, 250 million followers in Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Laos, and Cambodia.
Buddhism
RELIGION
Tibetan Buddhism- dominant in Tibet & Bhutan
Buddhism- well-represented in Japan.
Taoism- indigenous Chinese religion
Confucianism- widespread in China in pre-Communist times.
RELIGION
Catholicism & Protestantism- Philippines.
Sikhs, Parsis and Jains in India- less well-represented religions.
Asian Countries
COUNTRY
CAPITAL
CURRENCY
BANGKOK
THAILAND
BAHTSOUTHEAST ASIA
DILI
EAST TIMOR
DOLLARSOUTHEAST ASIA
BEIJING
CHINA
YUANEAST ASIA
DHAKA
BANGLADESH
TAKASOUTH ASIA
ULAANBAATAR
MONGOLIA
TUGRIKNORTH & CENTRAL ASIA
KABUL
AFGHANISTAN
AFGHANISOUTH WESTASIA
JAKARTA
INDONESIA
RUPIAHSOUTHEAST ASIA
TAIPEI
TAIWAN
TAIWAN DOLLAREAST ASIA
NEW DELHI
INDIA
RUPEESOUTH ASIA
MOSCOW
RUSSIA
RUBLENORTH &
CENTRAL ASIA
BAGHDAD
IRAQ
IRAQI DINARSOUTH WESTASIA
EMILYN M. POTESTAD