Final Exam Study Guide

This is an outline of what we’ve covered since the second midterm (Chapters 9-12), as well as a list of things you might be expected to know from our initial classes on maps and general concepts related to world regions (Appendix, Chapters 1-2). My suggestion is to use this outline as a guide to study from your class notes and related sections of your textbook.

South Asia

SWOT analysis chart and its main points

Economic reforms in India

Poverty and gender inequality in South Asia

Summer and winter monsoons and their characteristics

General understanding of the physical map of South Asia

British colonialism/imperialism and independence

The history of foreign invaders to South Asia (broad sequence)

The Green Revolution and its impact

The caste system

Population geography of South Asia

Geopolitical issues and the Shimla Agreement

East Asia

Major physical divisions in the region and their distinguishing characteristics, including differences in climate and vegetation

History of human impact on the environment

Imperial/dynastic China – major characteristics and achievements of this period

Imperial Japan – major characteristics and achievements

Kyoto

The main causes of imperial decline

Japan’s industrial revolution and military aggression

Japan’s “economic miracle”

Revolutionary China – origins, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution

Deng’s Four Moderizations

Economic standing of modern-day East Asia (including Asian Tigers)

Population characteristics and urbanization

China’s population policy

Migration and diasporas

Belief systems and religions

Traditional values

Basic information about the sub-regions of South China, Japan’s Pacific Corridor, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia and Tibet

Special Economic Zones

Basic information about the cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Kyoto.

Southeast Asia

Population stats/characteristics

Tectonic plates/volcanic activity

Physical characteristics of the mainland vs. the islands

Climate (including monsoons and typhoons) and ecosystems

History of land use and deforestation

Overview of early civilizations

European (and American) colonialism (in two phases) and its legacy

Japanese occupation

Independence

The Vietnam War

The Philippines as a case study of the effects of colonialism/multiculturalism

Characteristics of economic development after independence was achieved

The Little Tigers, economic crisis and recovery

Urbanization

Migration (three types)

Spatial characteristics of various religions practiced in the region

Women’s roles and the sex trade

Economic variations within the region and individual countries

Opium trade

Political instability – Indonesia, the Philippines, Burma

The Spratly Islands

Singapore

The Mekong Basin

Jakarta and Jabotabek

Bangkok & Central Thailand

Bali and tourism

Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific

The major landforms of the region (Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands) and their chief characteristics

The Great Barrier Reef

Biodiversity and ecosystems

Ecological imperialism and the introduction of exotics

Environmental concerns (bomb testing, fishing, tourism, climate change)

Colonization and independence

World War II as a turning point

Post WWII economies

Population characteristics

IDs of major cities

Migration and ethnicity

Other social characteristics: languages, religions, traditions, economic inequality

Aboriginal issues (including Australia’s “stolen generation”) and multiculturalism

The outback

Some issues specific to the Pacific Islands

Antarctica

Appendix

Generally, how to read maps

Map scale

Latitude and longitude (parallels and meridians)

Chapters 1 & 2

Globalization

The five key factors of globalization

Commodity chains

Global environmental change

Population issues

Global trends in urbanization

World cities

Economic development (slide 26 & 29 of class1_2.ppt)

Gender equality and empowerment

The world system and the triadic core

Organizing the periphery and peripheral infrastructure

Imperialism and colonialism

Post-colonial economic and political challenges

Pay particular attention to the following maps, diagrams and charts in these two chapters: figures 1.16, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 2.15, 2.16, 2.26