Early Civilizations
This civilization settled along the Nile River Valley.
What is Egypt?
This is the mountain range that borders South Asia.
What is the Himalayas?
What is pharaoh?
This is the most practiced religion in South Asia.
What is Hinduism?
This country owned India until 1947.
Who is Britain?
This civilization settled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This is the major river in South Asia and is considered sacred to Hindus.
This is the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mt. Everest?
This religion believes that suffering is a part of life.
What is Buddhism?
This is the term used for companies hiring workers in other nations to do easy jobs for less money.
What is outsourcing?
This civilization created the code of laws that gave us the phrase, "an eye for an eye"
What is Babylon/Babylonia?
These are seasonal winds that cause heavy rains and flooding.
What are monsoons?
This is the term used for the separation of social classes/groups in India.
What is the caste system?
This religion does not drink alcohol or consume tobacco products.
What is Sikhism?
This is a common type of job in India, since many citizens speak English.
What are call centers?
This civilization settled along the Indus River Valley.
What is the Harappan civilization?
This is the term used to describe the doubling of crop and food production in India due to pesticides and fertilizers.
What is the Green Revolution?
This country is where Malala is from.
What is Pakistan?
This religion considers the Ganges River sacred, and will build temples along its river banks.
What is Hinduism?
This is the term used for the number of people in a country that can read or write.
What is literacy rate?
This civilization is the one of the major civilizations that developed in the New World (North and South America).
What is the Aztec civilization?
This type of agriculture is used to preserve the environment.
What is sustainable agriculture?
This terrorist group took over several areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and shot Malala in the head to try and stop her protests.
What is the Taliban?
This is the second most-practiced religion in South Asia.
What is Islam?
This is the international language of commerce.
What is English?