Landforms / Climate
Social
Religion
Political
Bonus
100
The river that causes dispute between India and Bangladesh.
What is the Ganges?
100
Food, clothing, and shelter.
What are basic necessities?
100
This refers to the way you live your life. Positive can lead to good things happening to you and negative can lead to a lower form in your next life.
What is Karma?
100
This is the largest of the early civilizations. Very developed and urban.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
100
This British organization controlled all trade in India starting in 1757.
What is the British East India Company?
200
The river that causes dispute between India and Pakistan.
What is the Indus?
200
___________ is the inability to read or write.
What is illiteracy?
200
The river that is believed to be sacred by Hindu.
What is the Ganges?
200
Ghandi's strategy for protest against British rule.
What is nonviolent resistance?
200
What is the term for the archipelago in South Asia?
What is the Maldives?
300
The type of monsoon out of the Southwest that brings rainfall.
What is a summer monsoon?
300
The reason Indian families often have many children.
What is infant mortality rate?
300
The cycle of life and death according to Hindus.
What is reincarnation?
300
This refers to the "separation" between East/West Pakistan and India.
What is Partition?
300
What is the term that refers to a small loan given to poor entrepreneurs?
What is a microcredit?
400
A dry monsoon out of the Northeast.
What is a winter monsoon?
400
The system of social classes in India. No mobility among classes.
What is the caste system?
400
The highest class in the caste system. Refers to priests.
What is Brahmin?
400
The type of government system in which the ruler's power is limited by a constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
400
A low lying island created by a submerged volcano, surrounded by coral and shallow lagoons.
What is an atoll?
500
This country is often devastated by cyclones more than other regions of South Asia.
What is Bangladesh?
500
This nomadic group in Nepal is commonly hired to guide mountain climbers through the Himalayas.
What is Sherpa?
500
The guiding principles for Hindus are laid out in the text called the _________.
What is Bhagavad Gita?
500
The term that refers to British direct rule over India.
What is Raj?
500
The territory involved in the conflict between Pakistan and India.
What is Kashmir?
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