Reference no: EM133772895
Assignment:
1. Describe the inequality that had begun to develop amongst the peoples of Southeast Asia's earliest settlements and explain the climatic and geographic factors that contributed to it.
2. Describe how rice farming developed in Southeast Asia and explain how it contributed to the development of permanent villages in the region.
3. Describe the key migration events that took place in Southeast Asia prior to about 1100 CE and explain how they contributed to shifting patterns of political and social organization during the Proto-Classic and Classic periods.
4. Describe and explain three differences and three similarities shared by the processes of Indianization, Sinicization, and Islamization.
5. Describe the mandala system of political organization found in Southeast Asia during the Proto-Classic and Classic periods and explain how it contributed to both stability and instability in the region.
6. Describe the impacts that the two Chinese annexations of "Vietnam" had on Vietnamese culture, society, and politics.
7. Describe the spread of Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia and explain its impact on the mainland states of the Classic and Early-Modern periods.
8. Describe the two distinct waves of European imperialism that took place in Southeast Asia from the mid-to-late 1500s to the early-to-mid 1900s and explain how each most significantly impacted local populations.
9. Describe the various attempts that Southeast Asian leaders and local populations made to resist European colonialism and explain the most significant factors that contributed to both their success and their failures.
10. Describe the diverse nationalist activities and ideologies that dominated early-to-mid 1900s Southeast Asian societies and explain how both colonialism and Japanese occupation contributed to their successes and failures.
11. Describe the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia and explain the role that propaganda played in shaping the responses that the various resident populations developed.
12. Explain how Cold War ideologies shaped the diverse processes of decolonization that took place in post-Japanese occupation Southeast Asia.
13. Explain how local centres of power, such as local elite families, political parties, and the military, that developed during the late-colonial and Japanese-occupation periods haveshaped the post-independence economic, political, and religious lives of Southeast Asians.
14. Describe the historical development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and explain the factors that have contributed to its most significant successes and failures.
15. Describe the sources that are available to us from the Proto-Classic, Classic, Pre-Modern, and Modern periods and explain how the production of knowledge based on these sources has impacted our understanding of Southeast Asian history.