East Asia Assignment | Asia
TASK: Assignment Chapter 5: East Asia
Questions:
1. Analyze to what extend can East Asia be defined as the “Chinese realm”.
2. Evaluate what influences worked against the total Chinese or European domination of East Asia before 1950. Deduct how did such interactions affect later developments.
3. Evaluate if the range of natural environments in East Asia contradicts the idea of its character as a major world region. Explain.
Write an essay answering the previous three questions. You are strongly encouraged to illustrate your answer with pictures or photography.
• You should write an introduction paragraph/half a page presenting the three questions you have to answer to.
• You should write about one paragraph/one page on each of your answers, so about three total paragraphs or three pages.
• You should write a conclusion paragraph/half a page reflecting on the three questions you previously answered.
• Your answers must be supplemented with additional information from at least two other sources besides your textbook. Your textbook does not count as a source.
• You cannot use encyclopedias or online encyclopedias as sources. Online journals are acceptable, as well as online articles as long as you provide your references preferably under MLA format or any other consistent format.
