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1. Social Studies 105 – Asian Studies This course examine the development perspective in Asian countries, historical roots, culture, values as well as issues & challenges & Asian responses. The course is designed to enable students to make comparative study of Asian societies. This may include Asian countries, capital, currency, continental location, region, socio-economic policy, ethnic identity, literature, religion, language, art, physical features, folklore , or film from interdisciplinary perspectives. 

2. 3 units subject Non pre-requisite Tuesday 8 :30 – 11:30

3. Asia believed to have originated from the Ancient Greek word “Ἀσία” ( Asiē ), which was first attributed to Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. Initially, it referred to Anatolia (present-day Turkey) or the Persian Empire literally, 'place of the rising sun'. Asia - is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of  44.58 million km², about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The current population of Asia is 4,785,060,131. Asia’s population is equivalent to 59.22% of the total world population. 5 Regions of Asia 1. Central Asia 2. East Asia 4. West Asia 3. South East Asia 3. South Asia

4. List of Asian Countries, Capital, Currency, Language, Region & Flag Asian Countries Capital Currency Language Region Flag 1.Afghanistan Kabul Afghan afghani Dari Persian CA 2.Armenia Yerevan Armenian dram Armenian WA 3.Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani manat Azerbaijani WA+E 4.Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar Arabic WA 5.Bangladesh Dhaka Taka Bangla SA 6.Bhutan Thimphu Bhutanese ngultrum Dzongkha SA 7.Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei dollar Malay SEA 8.Cambodia Phnom Penh Cambodian riel Khmer SEA 9.China Beijing Renminbi (Yuan) Mandarin EA

5. 10.Cyprus Nicosia Euro Greek, Turkish WA 11.Georgia Tbilisi Lari Georgian WA 12.India New Delhi Indian rupee Hindi, English SA 13.Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah Indonesian SEA 14.Iran Tehran Iranian rial Persian WA 15.Iraq Baghdad Iraqi dinar Arabic, Kurdish WA 16.Israel Jerusalem Israeli new shekel Hebrew, Arabic WA 17.Japan Tokyo Yen Japanese EA 18.Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar Arabic WA 19. Kazakhsta n Nur-Sultan Kazakhstani tenge Kazakh, Russian CA

6. 20.Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar Arabic, English WA 21. Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani som Kyrgyz, Russian CA 22.Laos Vientiane Lao kip Lao(Laotian) SEA 23.Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Arabic, French WA 24.Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Ringgit Malay SEA 25.Maldives Male Maldivian rufiyaa Dhivehi SA 26.Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongolian togrog Mongolian EA 27.Myanmar Naypyidaw Kyat Burmese SEA 28.Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese rupee Nepali SA 29. North Korea Pyongyang North Korean won Korean EA

7. 30.Oman Muscat Omani rial Arabic WA 31.Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani rupee Urdu, English SA 32.Palestine Jerusalem (East) Palestine pound Arabic WA 33. Philippines Manila Philippine peso Filipino, English SEA 34.Qatar Doha Qatari riyal Arabic WA 35. Russia (A+E) Moscow Russian ruble Russian URA 36. Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi riyal Arabic WA 37.Singapore Singapore Singapore dollar English, Chinese, Malay SEA 38. South Korea Seoul South Korean won Korean EA 39.Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Sri Lankan rupee Sinhala, Tamil SA

8. 40.Syria Damascus Syrian pound Arabic WA 41.Taiwan Taipei New Taiwan dollar Standard Chinese EA 42.Tajikistan Dushanbe Somoni Tajik, Russian CA 43.Thailand Bangkok Baht Thai SEA 44.Timor-Leste Dili US dollar Tetum, Portuguese SEA 45.Turkey Ankara Turkish lira Turkish WA 46. Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmen new manat Turkmen CA 47. UAE Abu Dhabi UAE Dirham Arabic WA 48.Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistan som Uzbek CA 49.Vietnam Hanoi Dong Vietnamese SEA 50.Yemen Sana’a Yemeni rial Arabic WA

9. Geographical features of Asia Asia can be divided into 5 major physical features: mountain systems, plateaus, plains, steppes, deserts, freshwater environments & saltwater environments. The Kunlun mountains considered as the longest mountain ranges located in China, has a length of 3,000 kilometers. The Himalaya mountains extend for about 2,500 kilometers separating the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia.The Himalayas stretch across the northeastern portion of India. They pass through the nations of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Bhutan & Nepal.

10. Asia has 3 famous major physical features: Mount Everest, Lake Baikal & Gobi Desert. Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world, Lake Baikal is the deepest freshwater body. The Gobi desert is famous for its history, being a route of travel along the ancient trading network called the Silk Road. Silk Road , also called Silk Route, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Gobi Desert basin lies across southern Mongolia & northwestern China. Natural Resources of Asia Asia extracts an immense wealth of minerals like oil, natural gas & coal are of greatest value. Main producing of Oil are Saudi Arabia, Russia & China. The largest Asian coal producers are China, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea & Japan.

11. Asia’s stake in world markets has grown dramatically in the last half-century. Today, Asian countries rank as some of the top producers of many agricultural, forest, fishing, mining, and industrial products. This increased production has brought both extreme wealth and negative environmental impacts to the continent.

12. Environmental problems & ecological balance in Asia Population growth and economic development contribute to many environmental problems in Asia. These include pressure on land, habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity, water scarcity and water pollution, air pollution, and global warming and climate change.Urban excess, deforestation, overfishing, global warming, air pollution, limited safe water supplies, Inequality & poverty. Faces rising sea levels, heat waves, floods and droughts, increasingly intense and unpredictable weather events. Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand are among countries in the world most affected by climate change in the past 20 years, according to the Global Climate Risk Index compiled by Germanwatch, an environmental group.

13. Main cause of environmental problems in Asia Various factors including demand for timber products and palm oil, intensive farming and urban sprawl. Poor regulation and in some cases, corruption have commonly allowed unsustainable practices. Southeast Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change and faces rising sea levels, heat waves, floods and droughts, increasingly intense and unpredictable weather events. Today, environmental problems in the Philippines include pollution, mining and logging, deforestation, threats to environmental activists, dynamite fishing, landslides, coastal erosion, biodiversity loss, extinction, global warming and climate change.

14. Solution to environmental problems & ecological balance in Asia Conserve water, electricity, support environmental friendly practices, recycle waste to conserve natural resources. Reducing burning agricultural crop residues, municipal waste burning, and forests, livestock manure management, efficient application of nitrogenous fertilizers, modern brick kilns & emission controls on international shipping.

15. ETHNO - LINGUISTIC GROUPS IN ASIA Ethnolinguistic Group A group of people that share a language, common ethnicity, and cultural heritage. The vitality of an ethnolinguistic group depends on their ability to maintain their language and cultural heritage. A group of people with a distinct language and culture that gives them a unique identity

16. HISTORY OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC M igrations of distinct ethnolinguistic groups have probably occurred as early as 10,000 years ago. However, about 2.000 BCE early Iranian speaking people and Indo-Aryans have arrived in Iran and northern Indian subcontinent. Pressed by the Mongols, Turkic peoples often migrated to the western and northern regions of the Central Asian plains.

17. Prehistoric migrants from South China and Southeast Asia seem to have populated East Asia, Korea and Japan in several waves, where they gradually replaced indigenous people, such as the Ainu, who are of uncertain origin. Austroasiatic and Austronesian people establish in Southeast Asia between 5.000 and 2.000 BCE, partly merging with, but eventually displacing the indigenous Australo-Melanesians.

18. In terms of Asian people, there is an abundance of ethnic groups in Asia, with adaptations to the climate zones of the continent, which include arctic, subarctic, temperate, subtropical or tropical, as well as extensive desert regions in Central and Western Asia. The ethnic groups have adapted to mountains, deserts, grasslands, and forests, while on the coasts of Asia, resident ethnic groups have adopted various methods of harvest and transport. The types of diversity in Asia are cultural, religious, economic and historical.

19. Some groups are primarily hunter-gatherers- whereas others practice transhumance (nomadic lifestyle), have been agrarian for millennia, or adopted an industrial or urban lifestyle. Some groups or countries in Asia are completely urban (e.g., Qatar and Singapore); the largest countries in Asia with regard to population are the China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, Thailand, Burma, and South Korea.

20. 2 BASES FOR ETHNOLIGUISTIC GROUPINGS ETHNICITY AND LANGUAGE ETHNICITY - Social identification based on the presumption of shared history and a common cultural inheritance. Part of a group with members who have a common language, beliefs, traits, traditions and the same ancestors. Language EAST ASIA Groups: Han Chinese, Japanese, Korean Languages: Sino - Tibetan, Korean Groups: Han Chinese, Jap anese, Korean Groups: Han Chinese, Japanese, Korean Languages: Sino - Tibetan, Korean

21. SOUTHEAST ASIA Groups: Malay, Khmer Languages: Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan and Mon Khmer WEST ASIA Groups: Arabs, Jews, Indo - Aryan Turkik Languages: Arabic and Semitic Central (North) ASIA Groups: Slav, Turkik, Paleosiberian Languages: Slavic, Turkik

22. Language per Region & Country EAST ASIA Japanese

23. WEST ASIA Arab

24. Central (North) ASIA Turkik

25. SOUTH ASIA Dravidian

26. SOUTHEAST ASIA Khmer

27. Believed to be the key in unifying diverse groups in a country. IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE IN THE FORMATION OF ASIAN CULTURE

28. Human Development & Poverty Level in Asia Measuring