You should be familiar with the following people, places and/or events:

British East India Company

Caste System

Indochina - The name given to the mainland of southeast asia. It includes the countries of Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Malaysia.

Significance of Hong Kong - Taken over by the British during the first Opium War. Turned back over to the Chinese in 1999.

Silk Road - The trade route between China and Rome

Communists - One of the three groups that fought for control of China. Let by Mao Tse Tung

Chinese Civil War - Three groups were fighting for control of China - Communists, Nationalists, and the Japanese

Chiang Kai-Shek - Second leader of the Nationalist Party

Jammu and Kashmir

Hinduism

Four Noble Truths

Mauryan Empire (Asoka)

Ainu - the native inhabitants of Japan. They are fairer skinned with blondish red hair and are taller.

Japan's acceptance of Western Ideas - Japan became a colonizing power rather than be colonized by Europe. They modeled their country after several aspects of western belief and tradition. From America they took industrialization, from Germany they modeled their army, from England they modeled their navy, and from France they modeled their political planning.

Population controls in China and India -

Archipelago - A series of islands, usually crescent shaped.

Guru nanak

Transnational corporations - A company with activities and interests that span international boundaries

Guru Arjan

Demography -

Sepoy Rebellion

Chinese Dynasties

Demographic Transition Model

Opium Wars - Britain was importing opium from India and selling it to the Chinese people. The government wanted to stop this practice and declared war on Britain. Britain won easily and made certain demands on the chinese people - Britian would take control of Hong Kong, and that 5 ports would be opened to British ships to trade. The second opium war was centered around the same principle, and once again Britain won easily. At this point Britain forced China to allow opium to be grown on Chinese soil. This reduced the cost for Britain because they did not have to ship it from India.

Doubling Time - The amount of time it takes a population to double.

Nationalists - One of the three groups fighting for control of China during the civil war.

Mao Tse-Tung - Leader of the Communist party that won the civil war in China. Turned China into a communist country, which it still is today.

Sun Yat-Sen - First leader of the Nationalist party in China. He died and was replaced by Chiang Kai Shek

Boxer Rebellion - The rebellion that originated in the countryside of China. It was aimed at all foreigners in China. The Chinese people resented that China was losing its identity and history and rebelled against the hated outsiders. It was put down with much bloodshed and violence and began the end of dynatic rule in China

Buddhism

Japan's physical geography - Japan is an archipelago with four main islands (Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku). There are also numerous islands scattered around these four that Japan's lays claim to.

Emperor Meiji - Started the Meiji reformation in Japan. The Meiji reformation was aimed towards making Japan a colonizing power. The thinking was that if Japan began colonizing parts of Asia, then Europe would consider them as equals and Japan wouldn't become a colony of a European country. It worked in the long run.

Shinto Religion - This was the native religion of Japan. It gives reverence to deceased relatives, and forces of nature (similar to Animism that we covered in Africa). Shinto became more of a political movement under Meiji than a religion.

Confucianism - Confucius was China's greatest philosopher and teacher. Since his life over two thousand years ago, Confucianism has become a way of life for the Chinese citizen. It isn't a religion per se, but rather a way of life for everyone. Confucianism applies to everyone - from the lowliest peasant to the emperor himself.

Sikhism

Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto) - Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. It was an influential philosophy that maintained that a society needs to undergo the normal stages of economic development to achieve an economic model in which all production, services, and other aspects of an economy reside in the hands of the workers. Vladimir Lenin (founder of communism in Russia) and Mao Tse Tung (founder of communism in China) were strong supporters of this philosophy.

Guru Gobind Singh

Extraterritoriality - the principle that foreign diplomats and their representatives are immune from jurisduction of the territory in which they serve. In China this was taken to an extreme and China was losing their libraries, musuems, parks, and a host of other facilities. This was done through the belief that embassies were the property of the diplomatic country. In other words, the British Embassy in Washinton DC is the property of Britain, not the US. In China this was established not just over diplomatic property, but also over libraries, musuems, and other facilities.

4 Sectors to an economy - The economies of every country in the world can be divided into four sectors. Everything that is produced will fall into one of these four categories. 1) Primary - includes anything extractive. Any time the worker comes into contact with the environment. It includes agriculture, mining and others. 2) Secondary - includes manufacturing. This is when raw materials are refined into finished products. 3) Tertiary - Services. Any service that is performed falls into this category. It includes banking, teaching, government work, and others. 4) Quaternary - Information. The handling of information in any form. Newspapers, cable, and others.