chapter 27 homework

Chapter 27, Section 1

1. Where did East Asia’s ideas and traditions originate?

From the Han dynasty.

2. What languages do the people of China speak?

Most people speak Mandarin dialect of the Han Chinese language.

Creative Writing: Write a paragraph that compares Chinese health care, religion, or education before, during, and after the “Great Leap Forward.”

Now the Chinese government is pushing that everyone knows how to read and write. But before there was a brief period of time that only few people in the country knew how to read and write.

Chapter 27, Section 2

1. How is the population of Japan distributed?

Most people live in valleys or on coastal plains.

2. How did Japan build an empire in the 1900s and how did it come to an end?

Japan was going towards a democracy, yet military leaders gained too much power and over ruled the government. So that was when they were in WW II. When the United States bombed them their empire ended. After that they went to democracy and built a world power.

Although Japan’s population is ethnically homogeneous, its culture has been influenced by many other cultures. Write a paragraph that describes at least two ways that Japan’s culture has been influenced by other cultures.

Japan likes to adapt different cultures from different countries. For example they like the game of baseball. That game originated from America. Also English has influenced their language.

Chapter 27, Section 3

1. How did Korea first react to contact with the West?

They responded by creating a close door mentality.

2. On what is the Korean way of life based?

Confucianism is what life is based on.

Creative Writing: Although North and South Korea are predominantly ethnically homogeneous, a cultural divergence has taken place between the two countries. Write a paragraph that describes the cause of this cultural divergence and lists some of its effects.

Since North Korea is communist the government tells them what to read, write draw, and more stuff. Yet since South Korea is open to the world their governments let them believe in,read, and draw whatever they want to.