Vocabulary
Vocab. Continued
India
India Continued
100
A plant that can be made into twine.
What is jute?
100
India's first woman prime minister.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
100
Three products shipped from India to England.
What are spices, tea, cotton, silk, indigo, sugar and saltpeter?
100
Did the untouchables have the right to vote before the 1950 constitution?
no
200
This government in Afghanistan made it illegal for women to work.
What is the Taliban?
200
An empire whose period of Indian history ended in 1707.
What is Mughal Empire?
200
What types of technology were set up by the British?
railroads, telegraph, steamships, irrigation methods.
200
Name the two religions of Southeast Asia.
Hinduism and Islam
300
This person used nonviolent protest to persuade the British to leave India?
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
300
Recent developments in agriculture that use new seeds, fertilizers, and chemicals.
What is the Green Revolution?
300
What types of businesses did the British set up in India?
factories and trading posts
300
True or False: Women who have male children have more influence in their families than women with female children.
True
400
The money traditionally paid by the bride's family to the groom's family in India.
What is dowry?
400
A language spoken mostly in rural Pakistan and seldom written down.
What is Punjabi?
400
Did most people of Southeast Asia live in rural or urban areas?
rural
400
True or False: The Hindus and Muslims got along in India.
False
500
This construction project in Pakistan has bee used to produce hydroelectricity since 1994.
What is Tarbela Dam?
500
A family of languages spoken centuries ago throughout India, but today is spoken mostly in the southern part.
What is Dravidian?
500
True or False: Gandhi believed that all human beings should be treated equally and that women should have the same rights as men.
True
500
What is the main religion in Pakistan?
Islam
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