East Asia

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East Asia
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Mongolia

• North of China, South of Russia
• Landlocked from the Sea

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A Land of Plateaus, Deserts, and Mountains

• Mongolian Landscape

• Traditional Mongolian Yurt

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China
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Satellite Image of China

• Can you find
• --Himalayas
• --Plains Basins
• --Plateau of Tibet
• --Western Desert
• --Island of Hainan
• --Island of Formosa (now Taiwan)

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Han Dynasty of 87 BC

• Silk Roads
• This was the origin and reason for Middle Eastern
  trade with people in the Orient.