INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTIONS

THAT DEFINED SOCIETY

ASIAN 1
 IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING
ASIAN
• We are Asians, thus we should know more about Asia than any other region in the
world.
• Asia will dominate the worlds political economic and spiritual developments in the
near future.
• Philippine due to its location and heritage has always been the “Light of Asia” and
today is still able to fulfill a great role in this Asian renaissance.
 GEOGRAPHERS HAVE SOMETIMES
DIVIDED THE WORLD INTO TWO PARTS:

• East (Orient) - The Asian world, said to be the region of the rising sun.

• West (Occident) – is the Europe and North America, said to be the region of the
setting sun.
 WESTERN ASIAN
• Also called near east because of nearness to Europe the middle East lies midway
between Asia and Europe. It includes the following country:
1.Iran
2.Iraq
3.Syria
4.Lebanon
5.Jordan
 EAST ASIAN
ALSO CALLED THE FAR EAST SUB REGION

1. China
2. Japan
3. Taiwan
4. North Korea
5. South Korea
 NORTH ASIAN
1. Afghanistan
2. Russia’s Siberia
3. Kazakhstan
4. Georgia
5. Armenia
 SOUTHEAST ASIAN

In this sub-region are:

1. Philippines
2. Indonesia
3. Malaysia
4. Singapore
5. Thailand
6. Myanmar
7. Vietnam
 PEOPLES OF ASIAN

• Brown Race – represented by Filipinos, Malaysians and Indonesians.

• Yellow Race – represented by the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese.
• Aryan or Indo European – a branch of the white race represented by afghans,
Iranians and Indians.
• Semitics – a branch of the white race represented by Arabs, Jews, Iraqis and Syrians.
• Red Race – Siberian and Soviet Asian who migrated to North America and became
ancestors of American Indians.
• Eurasians/Amerasians – results of mixed marriages(part European, part Asian or part
American, part Asian)
 MAN MADE WONDERS
• The Great Wall of China, Built by Emperor Shih Huang Ti (220-221 B.C). With a
length of 2,700km. Long across North China, it took more than 10 years to finish,
and more than 200,000 men labored on the project.
• The Ifugao Rice Terraces of the Philippines, built 2,000 years ago, if placed end to
end they would extend more than half the circumference of the Earth.
• The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, hailed by Western writers as “the most beautiful and
most perfect of all buildings in the world”.
• The Dome of the Rock, an Islamic Shrine in Jerusalem.
• The Shwe Dagon, the fabulous golden pagoda in Rangoon ,Burma (Myanmar)
 ASIAN CHARACTER TRAITS

• Spirituality, the Asian has an innate spiritual nature, there is spiritual dimension to
everything he does.
• Fatalism. The Asian does not believe that he is the “master of his soul”.
• Hospitality. No matter how humble their situations, Asians will serve and pamper their guest.
• Extended family relationship. Strong bonds of love and kinship among asian family
members.
• A sense of continuity. Whatever man does affect nature.
 INDIA
• They are known for manufacturing iron and in Metallurgical works. Their iron steel is
considered to be the best and held high regard in the whole Roman Empire.
• They are also famous in Medicine. For ex. Ayurveda, a system of traditional medicine that
originated in ancient India before 2500 BC, is still practiced as a form of alternative
medicine.
• They discovered some medicinal properties of plants and they developed a text like the
Sushruta Samhita, which describes different surgical and other medical procedures.
• Notable in the field of Astronomy. They developed theories on the configuration of the
universe, the spherical self-supporting Earth, and the year of 360 days with 12 equal parts of
30 days each.
• They are also known for their Mathematics. They tried to standardize measurement of length
to a high degree of accuracy and designed a ruler, the Mohenjo –daro ruler.
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AYURVEDA
INDIA’S RULER
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• The mathematician Aryabhata (476-550), in his Aryabhatiya, introduced a number of
trigonometric functions, tables and techniques, as well as algorithms of algebra.
• Indian, Brahmagupta, also suggested that gravity was a force of attraction, and lucidly
explained the use of zero as both a placeholder and a decimal digit, along with Hindu-Arabic
numerical system now used universally throughout the world.
• Madhava Sangamagrama is considered as the founder of mathematical analysis.
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• The of Chinese are known for their traditional medicines, a product of centuries of
experiences and discovery of Chinese people. An ex. is the practice of the
acupuncture.
• In terms of technology, the Chinese are known to develop many tools. Among the
famous discoveries and inventions of the Chinese civilizations were compass,
papermaking, gunpowder, and printing tools that became known in the West only by
the end of the Middle Ages.
• They also invented other tools like iron plough, wheelbarrow, and propeller, among
others.
• They developed a design of different models of bridges (Zhongguo Ke Xue Yuan,
1983), invented the first seismological detector, and developed a dry dock facility.
ANCIENT EARTHQUAKE
DETECTOR
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• They also made a significant records on supernovas, lunar and solar eclipses, and comets,
which were carefully recorded and preserved to understand better the heavenly bodies and
their effects to our world, like our weather changes and seasons that may affect daily
activities. They used lunar calendars, too.
• They are also known in seismology which made them more prepared in times of natural
calamities.
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