QUESTIONS ON ASIA 
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GREAT WALL OF CHINA. 
16. State various vegotable fibres used in textile industries which are cultivated in 
Asia, and give their distribution. 
17. What animals are used as beasts of burden in different parts of Asia ? To what 
extent is the distribution of these animals climatic ? 
18. What Asiatic districets are noted for the production of wool and hair suited for 
textile industries ? 
19. In what parts of Asia are (1) milk and milk products, (2) fish, staple articles of 
diet ? Where is the population largely flesh-eating, and where largely 
_ vegotarian ? 
2, Discuss the distribution of population in non-monsoonal Asia, and state, with 
reasons, where you think the density of population could be materially 
increased, 
21. Contrast the following with regard to (1) total population, (2) area, (3) density 
of population per square mile—the United Kingdom, Siberia, and the 
Japanese Empire, 
22. To what extent is Tropical Asia under European control ? 
23. Account for the fact that population in Asia is less concentrated in large towns 
than in Wostern Europe. 
24. In what parts of Asia is life still to a great extent nomadic ?