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Southeast Asia
Module 10
8
Geography
Undergraduate 1
05/02/2010

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Term
Influence of Europeans
Definition
Dutch, Spanish, British and French were colonial rulers

Later US and Philippines took control

Portugese control East Timor, last to leave

Introduce plantation agriculture
Term
Mainland
Definition
Rice Culture

Terraced Hillsides

Tropical Climate

Very ethnically diverse

Buddhist
Term
Pol Pot and Khemer Rouge
Definition
Took over military government

Genocide fallowed 17 million people dead

Forced people into communal farms
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Catholicism 
Definition
In Vietnam several million exist

Brought by colonial powers
Term
Containerization 
Definition
Standardization of containers

Reduces threat of theft leads to lower insurance rates, packing of max number of containers

Easy to go from one mode of shipping to the other

New industrial market

90% of non bulk cargo moves by container ship

largest industry in SE asia

Lead to global market, changed economic geography
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Growth of Singapore
Definition
Largest container port

Strategic location at Straight of Mallaca

Fully Industrialized

Friendly Business climate, relys on exports
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Island Areas
Definition
Rely on farming, not very industrialized
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Indonesian Population
Definition
Increasing population on main island of Jawa

Government trying to get people to move to other islands, but people don't want to move
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