by: Gorka Alda

Josu Echevarria

Ruben Vergara

Adrian Martinez

Adrian Alvarez

Social Science

1ºA ESO
Index:
Geography:

-Climates........................................................................................... Pg 3

-Tribus……………………………………………………………………. Pg 5

-Himalaya, Eight-thousanders, Tibet………………………………….. Pg 6

Mitology………………………………………………………………………. Pg 6

Culture:

-Languages……………………………………………………………… Pg 7

-Religion, sports………………………………………………………… Pg 7

-Cinema, Chinese calligraphy, medicine, Japanese gastronomy, Chinese wall Pg 8

Society:

-Economy……………………………………………………………….. Pg 9

-Politics………………………………………………………………….. Pg 10

-Society…………………………………………………………………. Pg 10

Fauna……………………………………………………………………….. Pg 12

Great wall of China, Terracotta Army, Silk Road………………………. Pg 12

Geography CLIMATES

Asia has a lot of climates and the vegetation is adapted to this climates from the desert to
the tropical jungle and all of this zones has a different type of climate. The principal
climates are: the ecuatorial, desertic, tropical, mediterranean, polar and high mountain
climates.

-Hot climates:

The principal hot climates are ecuatorial, wet tropical, dry tropical and desertic. The
ecuatorial and the wet tropical are characterized by the abundant precipitations and are
located in southwest of Asia (Indostán, Indochina, Indonesia and Filipinas). The desertic
and dry tropical the precipitations are scare and are located in Orient Near (Arábiga, Iran
and central Asia). In the south the monsoon climate characterized by is strange movement
of it air mases from the ocean to continent in during the summer and in the contrary in
winter. Because that the monsoon climate has a oscillation of temperatures daily.

-Mild climates.

The continental climate has a dry and cold winter and mild summers and with a lot of
precipitations and there is located in Siberia. The mediterranean climate has a irregular
precipitations and the temperatures are mild in winter and hard in summer. Is located in
the coast (Anatolina, Siria and Palestina). There are some climates there are very similar
and are located in China, South Corea, and Japan.

-Cold climates:

The principal cold climates are the high mountain areas like the high plateaus and polar
climate located in north of Asia.

GEOGRAFIC MAPS

Asia is located in the north hemisphere and is surrounded from the north by the artic
ocean, from the south by the Indian Ocean, in the east by the Pacific Ocean, in the west is
located by Europe.
From the northeast Asia is separated from North America by the Bering Strait, and is
separated from Africa by the Suez Canal.

-Relief:

In the north Asia prevail the plates and plateaus: the European plate and the Siberian
occidental plate separated by the Ural mountains; and in the northeast the Siberian central
plateau.

In the central zone from west to east are the plateaus of Iran, Pamir, Tibet and Mongolia.
The Pair and Tibet plateaus are located more than 3500m. of altitude.

In the central zone is located the highest mountain range of the world The Himalaya and is
located the highest pick of the world The Everest with 8848m. In the east of Asia is located
the Great Chinese plate. In the south the Arabian, Indian and Indochina plates and the
Deccán plateau. In Asia there are the large and mighty rivers. Owed it large extension and
moonzonic rains.

-Politic:

Asia is the bigest continent and with more habitants of the world.

In Asia spoke a lot of languages. The more important and the more speaked are: Chino,
Hindu, Arabe, Bengalí, Ruso, Japonés, Coreano, Javanés, Telugú, Maratí, Vietnamita,
Tamil, Turco, Panyabí, Persa, Birmano, Malayo, Tagalo…

Asia is formed by 47 countries:

Kazajistán, Kirguistán, Tayikistán, Turkmenistán,

Uzbekistán Arabia Saudita Bahréin Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Irán Iraq Israel Jordania
Kuwait Líbano Omán Qatar
Siria Yemen Afganistán Bangladesh
Bután India Maldivas Nepal
Pakistán Sri Lanka China Corea del Norte
Corea del Sur Japón Mongolia Brunéi
Camboya Filipinas Indonesia Laos
Malasia Birmania Singapur Tailandia
Timor Oriental Vietnam Armenia Azerbaiyán
Georgia Turquía Rusia
TRIBUS

Sami or Lapp: total population 80000. Language: Uralic (Finno-Ugric Branch), the identity
of this town also was weakened by the efforts for decades, made the Nordic countries and
Russia to this ethnic group is integrated into their culture.

Uzbeks: language: Altaic, Turk, the Uzbek people took an active part in creating the
Mongol empire of Genghis khan. His indomitable spirit lives on riders many of their
customs.

The hazar (hazara) language: indo-European, Persian, they are one of the major ethnic
groups of Afghanistan (the third in population, 9% of total) and live mainly in the
mountainous area of Hazarajat. Most of the land is developed to crop, although Hazare
also engaged in raising cattle, sheep and goats.

The Voguls: language Mansi and Khanty (language Uralic, Finno-Ugric branch), their
shamanistic beliefs revolved around ancestors worship and the belief that man had five
women and four souls. Only the bear, animal revered, was matched in the human soul.

The Mongols: total population 1000000 language: Altaic-mongoloid, in eastern and central
Asia, includes the republic of Mongolia. The Mongolians still live like their ancestors, in the
Asiatic steppes, horses and cattle. They are the heirs of Genghis khan.

The tsaatang: total population approx. 300 language. Turkish, Uryankhai (tuvintsi), the
tsaatang live in north-western Mongolia grazing and reindeer herding. This has raised the
theory that their origin is Siberia. The Tsaatang live in the most inaccessible forests of
north-western Mongolia. They are still nomads and live reindeer husbandry, grouped is
small family clans.

Curiously, it is the only town in the region still in the early twentieth century got everything
you need to live on a single animal husbandry. This is why the reindeer is the most
important in their society and beliefs.

The Musuo: total population 278009, language. Sino-Tibetan, naxi, the Musuo are one of
the few matriarchal societies in the world.
The Karen: language: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Karen, these societies substring on
agriculture and food base is made up of rice.

The Padaung: language: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Karen, Bghai, the same term
padaung means long neck. The Toraja: population 500000, language Toraja-Sad

HIMALAYA, EIGHT-THOUSANDERS,TIBET

The Himalaya is a mountain range that separates the Indian Subcontinent from the
Tibetan Plateau. It includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush and another important
mountain ranges. Is the home of the highest mountains of the Earth, the Eight-
thousanders, which includes the Everest and the K2. The Himalayan mountain range
includes over 100 mountains that exceded 7200 m. Some of the most important rivers of
the world born in that place like the Ganges, Brahmaputra or Yangtze.

The Himalayas appear when the Indian Plateau collided with the Eurasian Plate about 10
million years ago. The Himalaya have about 15.000 glaciers. The biggest is the Siachen
Glacier. They also have hundreds of lakes. They have a dry climate.

The Eight-thousanders are the fourteen mountains on the Earth that have more than 8000
metres. All of them are located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. The
first person that climb an Eight-thousanders is Maurice Herzog who reached the summit of
Annapurna on June 3, 1950.

Tibet is a plateau located in the north of the Himalayas. In this place live the Tibetan
people. It has an average elevation of 4900 metres.Lhasa is Tibet’s traditional capital and
the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.The base of the Tibetan is the subsistence
agriculture. The religions of the Tibet are the Tibetan Buddhism, the islam, the Christianiti.
The Tibetan art represent the Tibetan Buddhism and pictures of Buddha. The architecture
have like the most important example of Tibetan architecture in the Potala Palace, that is
the residence of the Dalai Lama.

Mitology
Asian mythology is complex and diverse. Hindu mythology tells about an avatar of the god
Vishnu in the form of a fish who warned Manu of a terrible flood. In ancient Chinese
mythology, Shan Hai Jing, the Chinese ruler Da Yu, had to spend 10 years to control a
deluge which swept out most of ancient china and was aided by the goddess Nüwa which
remedy the sky

Chinese dragons are called long and are a group of animals. controlled waters, each lake
or river was living in a crystal palace in the background and are immortal, and assimilated
to the gods. They are generally considered male, represent the "yang", as opposed to
females of Phoenix is the "yin."

Culture LANGUAGES

Some of the languages that are spoken in Asia are chinesse, hindú ,urdu, Arabic,
Japanese ,corean ,Persian ,Russian… and they also in same countries they speak engish.

RELIGION

Asia is a continent with a lot of spiritual richness because the most important religions in
the world are origined in Asia. Like Judaism ,cristianism, budism islam ,Hinduism… Other
religions are the bahaism , confuciaism ,Jainism, sijism , sintoism , Taoism, zoroastrism.
And in other villages have other religions depending on the zone like:asimism, chamanism
and traditional chinesse religion. The most important religion in asia is the budaism
practised mostly in the east and in the south east of asia including the north of India ,the
himalaya and japan. The islam is also very important in the central asia. The Hinduism is
important but only in India and Nepal. The Judaism is mostly practised in Israel.The
religion in asia is very important and mostly religion create conflicts.

SPORTS

In the continent they practise different types of sports. The most important ones are
martial arts like: judo,karate, aikido, ninjitsu, kenpo, from japan.Taichi, kung fu,choy lee
fut,shaolin from china.taekwondo,hapkido. Taekyon,tangsudo from corea.eskrima and kali
Filipino from Filipinas.there are also famous the football,the basketball, the esgrima, the
badminton, the ping pong,swimming,gymnastics,tennis and volleyball. In the olimpic
games of asia the firsts ones are japan in Tokyo 1964.Then south corea in seul 1988. and
china in beijing 2008. The goodest chinesse sportsman is yao ming he is a basketball
player in the NBA and he plays in the Huston rockests and in football the goodest is ji sung
park he is corean and he plais in Manchester united . Shanghai got a grand prix of formula
one.
T
HE CINEMA

In Asia a lot of films are important , almost films from the “Lejano Oriente chinesse and
japanese productions some of then related with martial arts like tiger and dragon . Most of
that productions are love histories , comedias and terror films ,etc. The most important
asistic actor is Bruce Lee , and other like Pat Morita, Jackie Chan.Jet Li, tony Jaa and
Monsour del Rosario. The most famous dicector is the Japanese is Akira Kurosawa. And
one of the most famous films is Slumdog Millonaire.

THE ART OF THE CHINESSE CALIGRAPHY

The chinesse calligraphy is a extrange and exotic flower in. The history of the civilitation
and a jewel in the Asiatic culture.

ASIATIC MEDICINE

In the World the interest for the medicine Naturale is increasing like the acupuntur , the
relajation and the medicinal plants. The concepts of this medicine is releted whith the
Taoism.

JAPANESE GASTRONOMY

The japanese food change a lot with the sucesion of the years. Few Japanese people
know their tradicional gastronomy . This new gastronomy with the food presentation is one
of the most important factors in Japanese gastronomy. People think that this new
gastromomy was inventic with the habit of drink a cup of tea.

THE CHINESE WALL

The Chinese wall is the longest artificial estructure in the world .In the ancient times the
chinese wall protect the imperium of China and protect the caravans with goods in difficult
times. In this times the Chinese wall is restaured to the tourists .

Society ECONOMY

Asia has the third potence economic after Noth América and Eruope.In that continent it
highlight.

China followed by Japan, India, South Corea and Indonesia.But during 1960s South Corea
had mantained the highest growth rate in Asia, Nicknamed Asian tiger.

In 1990s and 2000s the economy of India have grow rapidly with an annual grow of more
than 8%. Also thyere are other increasing economies like Malaysia, the Philippines,
Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, Uzkebistan, Cyprus, And mineral rich nations such
as Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain and Oman.

China has for a lot of time the most advanced economy in the world, it overcame the
Brithis the Brithis Empire in the 19th century.

Japan has had for several decades the largest economy in Asia, surpassing the Soviet
Union in 1986 and the Germany in 1968.

In 1980s and 1990s the GDP (gross domestic product) was as large as than of the rest of
Asia combined. In 1995s, Japan equaled the economy of United States of America, this is,
Japan was the largest economy of the world for a day. The economic growth in Asia has
been concentrated in Japan.

But no all are good mews for this country, is forecasted that ,in 2020, India will overtake
Japan in terms of GDP .In 2025 South Corea will be the most wealthiest coutry in Asia,
And China, in 2050, will have the largest economy in the world, 45% greater than the
USA. Since Asia is the largest continent in the world by a big margin, is rich in natural
resources, like petroleum , forests, fish, water, rice, copper and silver. Asia has four
financial centres:Tokio, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shangai, and these centres are
becoming major employers in India and the Philippines.
POLITICS

The politic of Asia is very varied. In this continent there are constitutional monarchies,
absolute monarchies, one-party states, federal states, dependent territories, liberal
democracies and military dictatorships.Owed this extent of ways of goberment, we only go
to centre in China.

The founding of the republic of China began on 10 October 1911, but it was formally
established 1 January 1912. This it included mainland China and Outer Mongolia. At the
end of 2nd World War in 1945, China took over the group of islands of Taiwan and Penghu
with the surrender of Japan of this empire.Then, in 1927 to 1950 a civil war broke out at
the Kuomintang, the leading party of the Republic of China, and the comunists defeated
the Nationalists and the victorious Communists founded the People`s Republic of China
the 1 October 1949 by the comunist leader Mao Zedong. After his dead, the country was
goberned by Hua Guofeng, and from 1978, Deng Xiaoping, was the new maximun leader
of the country.

The estructural reforms of Deng provoked an intense economic growth who continue up to
the actuality.

The People`s Republic of China it rests in three fundamental areas:

1 The party, the leader of the party is his general secretary

2 The army and her leader is the President of the military central comission

3 The state, her headquarters belong at the president of the People`s Republic of China

In the actuality, this three ranges are ocupied by Hu Jintao. Name at the same person to
the three ranges tries to avoid the struggles by the power.
At the head of this goberment there is the first minister, in the actiality, Wen Jiabao. The
maximun organ legislative of the People`s Republic of China is the popular national
assembly, parliament formed by more of three thousand of delegate.

SOCIETY
The Chinese are met by his good manners, hospitality and by being discrets. The old
persons are much respected, and also they are very proud of his long history. In the
villages the houses are small and only had one family, the members of the families usually
help us, the old persons are revered by his knowledge and experience. In 1979 the
government introduced the politics of only one son for family to control the demographic
explosion. The tennis of table, the basketball and the soccer are the most popular sports in
China. As for the free time, one usually happens with the family and the friends. They like
to exit to walk and to demolish comets, and to travel all over the world. The young people
in the city come to discotheques and they like the karaoke. Another very popular game of
strategy is " xiang qi ", or Chinese chess.

China has nine official holidays, in addition to others of regional and national character. In
January or February the new lunar year dials up the spring beginning, the most important
holiday in China. China is converted into a big holiday. The celebrations last nearly two
weeks.

The Chinese kitchen is very diverse. Approximately 2000 years ago the Chinese were
already editing cookbooks. The only exception in his diet is the absence of milk products,
they replace it with the derivatives of the soya.

In most of China, the people eat rice every day; they include it in the soup, cover it with
sauces, or serve it with other vegetables. In the north of China eats a lot of pasta in
noodles and also bread of wheat cooked to the steam.

The education is obligatory and free for the children and girls from 7 to 16 years. The
children and girls Chinese must have good notes, because they have to spend a few very
hard examinations. They have many more duties and spend a lot of more time in the
school that the children and girls in Spain and they go to class 6 days a week. Every day,
before beginning the classes, they all meet out of the school and they do some font of
gymnastics. The pupils have the obligation to obey his teachers.
Fauna

The fauna of Asia presents a notable diversity of habitats with high variations in the
rainfall, altitude, topography, temperature and geological history. There are very different
types of fauna in Asia because of the different climates and places. The Asian fauna
started in the Mesozoic. There are a lot of deforestation because the human impact is very
high in Asia and increases a lot in the southeast of the continent.

Great wall of China, Terracotta Army, Silk Road

The great wall of China was built during the Chinese Empire, in the Ming dynasty. The
construction has got a longitud of 8.851 km. The wall is made up of rammed earth, stones
and woods. Some of the portions of the great wall are in Beijing. It got some watchtowers
and barracks. A lot of people says that is possible to see the great wall of China from the
Moon, outer the Earth, but everything is false. Some sections of the wall are affect
because of the vandalism and graffiti. Parts have been destroyed because is in way of
construction. More of 60 km was destroyed because of the erosion of the wind in the next
20 years.

The Terracotta Army has got 8.000 warriors. All of the warriors are different, there are not
any warrior equal to another. Terracotta Army were discovered in 1974. Is a funerary art
built the funeral of the first emperor of China of Qin.

The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian
continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well
as North, and Northeast Africa and Europe. In recent years, the maritime and overland Silk
Routes are ageing being used, often closely following the ancient routes. Marco Polo
opens the Rout.

The second of june of 2010 Edurne Pasaban recibes the medalla al merito deportivo
because the last month of May reached the summit of her last eight-thousander: the
Shisha Pagma.
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