[GEOG 202] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (159 pages long)

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Equatorial and monsoon: tropical rainforest (intensive rains) Early human migration: 40,000 bp insular s/sea and greater australasia. Austronesian migrations: 6000 bp southeast asia and open ocean areas (malayo-polynesian, out of taiwan (southward migration) Chinese migrations into southeast asia: china towns. Emerging economic actors: (cid:862)tigers(cid:863) (cid:894)high growth boom/bust cycles, nics (newly industrialized countries, self-sufficient food production. Asean (association of southeast asian nations both political and economic) Economic success leads to rise of urbanization: rural to urban movements, primate city situation. Culturally diverse and different colonial spheres: portuguese (east timor, dutch (east indies, spain (phillipines, britain (malaya, burma, france (indochine) Myanmar (burma: 52 million; rangoon (yangon) Thailand (siam: 65 million; bangkok, chao phraya river. Red river/gulf of tonkin: central: annam/hue, south: saigon = ho chi min city. 15 million; phnom penh; angkor wat: laos. Insular: indonesia, philippines, malaysia, singapore, east timor, brunei. Singapore: 5. 5 million, 4 official languages. Practice test answers: b, a, c, d, d, c, c, e, b.