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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH ASIA
HISTORY• Oldest continuous
civilization
-4,000 + years old
• Invented gunpowder,
compasses, paper,
printing, porcelain,
& silk cloth
HISTORY, CON’T.• Promoted isolation until
1800s-built Great Wall of China
to keep Mongol
invaders out
• Europeans forced China
to trade with them
-created colonial cities
HISTORY, CON’T.• Communist Party took
control in 1949
-sought to modernize &
industrialize China
-est. a command economy
-outlawed religion
GREAT WALL OF CHINA
• Begun by emperorShi Huangdi in 220 B.C.
• A series of walls
connected over time-from Yellow Sea to
Gobi Desert
• Offered protection, but
also caused isolation
CHINA TODAY• Most populated country
-1.4 billion people
-70% live in the east
• Still communist
• Emerging economic
superpower-has eased command
economy lately
CHINA’S ECONOMY• Fastest growing
economy in world-based on cheap labor
-has natural resources
needed for industry
-USA’s biggest rival
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