What two things shaped southeast asia into a region of many different languages and religions?

The two major facts that shaped South East Asia as a region of many different languages and religions are consisting of 11 countries in it and major trade has been done in these 11 countries.

The South East Asia is formed by a major group of 11 huge countries which are generally divided into mainland zone and the Island zone that reach from India to China. Some of these mainlands are an extension of Asian continent. The Islam is the major religion in South East Asia with following of 240 millions of adherents and followed by Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.

The region has a very complex language pattern. Some major languages of the South East Asia are Chinese spoken by most of the people because China has the largest population of 1.4 billion followed by Hindi with a total of 550 millions of speakers, next is English which has 300 millions of speakers and then comes the Russian language which is majorly used in Russia.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)