Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1136 short lesson, about 20 seconds
East and Southeast Asia: Ring of Fire and the Pacific Rim
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The idea
Mountains and the Gobi, a rain-shadow desert, wall it off. It sits on the Ring of Fire: about ninety percent of earthquakes, Tambora's eruption of eighteen fifteen cooling the globe. Postwar, Japan Westernized and grew; China, Korea and Vietnam turned communist.
In practice
The Pacific Rim, APEC, ASEAN.
Where people slip
Japan's GDP rank is as the anchor ranks it, undated.
Your place on the trail
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