Asian elephants are smaller in size and are made more for bush-lands whereas the African elephants are large. Also most Asian elephants have been trained or used for some sort of domestic use with...
Asia Minor (Turkey) is at the extreme west of what is considered to be Asia proper. It has no connection with Southeast Asia whatsoever, which is made up of the countries of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,...
Many East Asian and Southeast Asian countries were once Buddhist empires. What is now China, Mongolia all the way south into Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia were once Buddhist and Hindu empires....