Geography
At 29, 035 feet, this mountain is the highest
in the world.
What is Mt. Everest?
This is the reason historians don't know more about the Indus River Valley.
What are the meanings of ancient writings?
This was Gandhi’s most important strategy. It convinced millions of people to support Indian independence.
What is nonviolence?
These were the most common cash crops exported out of India by the British.
What are tea, indigo, sugar, cotton, coffee, and jute?
The population of India today.
What is 1.4 billion?
This river located in present-day Pakistan created a fertile delta which was once home to an ancient civilization.
What is the Indus River?
These were the largest cities in the Indus Valley civilization.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
Besides participating in hunger strikes and protest marches, Gandhi also asked his followers to start doing this activity, requiring Indians to stop buying British goods.
What is a boycott?
To move goods and raw materials, the British built a network of these around India.
What are railroads?
India’s current type of government.
What is a democracy?
This desert is located along the border between India and Pakistan.
What is the Thar Desert or the Great Indian Desert?
Indian ruler Shah Jahan built this magnificent structure as a tomb for his wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
By the mid-1800’s India had become a territory inhabited by a foreign land.
What is a colony?
Because of India's economic value, the British gave it this royal nickname.
What is the "jewel in the crown"?
The type of weapons both India and neighboring Pakistan possess.
What are nuclear weapons?
These low mountains separate India’s east and west coasts from the country’s interior.
What are the Eastern and Western Ghats?
In the A.D. 1500’s this group of Muslim invaders swept into India.
Who were the Mughals?
To avoid civil war between Hindus and Muslims, the British agreed to a type of division of India, creating the independent countries of India and Pakistan.
What is a partition?
This is one of the ways that British colonialism helped India.
What are building infrastructure and schools, improving health care and sanitation, and stopping bandits and village warfare?
Around 80% of Indians practice this religion.
What is Hinduism?
This large, hilly plateau is located south of the Ganges Plain.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
In the 1600's, India's rulers granted this British company valuable trading rights.
What is the British East India Company?
This organization was created by Indians to gain more rights and freedoms during British rule.
What was the Indian National Congress?
This is one of the ways that British colonialism hurt India.
What are losing all political and economic power, being treated like second-class citizens, and damaging Indian industries, such as textiles?
Since 1947 India and Pakistan have clashed over this territory.
What is Kashmir?