Religion
Which religious philosophy do Hindus believe is a state of understanding the releases the soul from the cycle of rebirth?
Nirvana
What is the name of the region contended between by India and Pakistan mostly due to religious conflict between Hindus and Muslims?
Kashmir
Religious philosophy believing in more than one god.
polytheism
Many of the stans have large sources of which kind of renewable energy? (mostly due to their mountains and rivers).
Hydro-electricity
Which large island country (that used to be part of India) has been home to many conflicts over religion and terrorism?
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Pakistan and Bangladesh have what religion as their majority?
Islam
Which European power conquered most of the Indian subcontinent up until independence after World War II?
Britain (UK)
The dividing of Indian people into four different______has created tension for many years.
Castes
Russia refused freedom to Chechnya and Dagestan after the fall of the Soviet Union in order to maintain access to...
The Black Sea
Epics and stories of non-fiction first began to exist in southern Asia. This later led to the development of Bollywood in which modern city?
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
The Vedas are the sacred text of which religion?
Hinduism
When Britain partitioned India in 1947, Muslim people were moved to Pakistan and what today is known as...
Bangladesh
When India did not ally itself with either the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War, they took this policy.
Nonalignment
The word "stan" often used in countries names (ex: Uzbekistan) roughly translates to _____ in English?
Land of
The newest (and tallest) mountain range in the world is known as the...
Himalayan Mountain Range (Himalayas)
Siddhartha Gautama later became known by this name from his followers.
Buddha
Which two rivers provide most of the water needed to survive in the Indian subcontinent?
Indus and Ganges
The series of trade routes across Asia where people became rich for trade was called...
The silk road
The Soviet invasion of which country in the 1980's led to American support for a group of people known as the Taliban?
Afghanistan
Which land-locked sea separates the "stans" from the caucuses?
Caspian Sea
Which monotheist religion in India has many followers and is actually the 5th largest religion on Earth?
Sikhism
Which empire held most of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan my it's control of the Indus and Ganges rivers around 250 B.C.?
Mauryan
Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia are usually referred to as what?
The Caucuses
Which Sea has greatly shrank as a result of Soviet policies there in the 20th century?
Aral Sea
Parts of Kazakhstan and Central Asia share which unique feature with Minnesota and other Midwestern states?
They have continental climates (flat grasslands which get very cold and can cause tornados).