S1: Chapter Atlas
S2: History of South Asia
S3: South Asia Today
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
100
The land south of the Himalayas is called the Indian __________.
What is subcontinent?
100
A place where civilization began and spread.
What is a cultural hearth?
100
South Asia today is full of "problems and promise". Name 3 problems listed in the book.
What are: 1. high population, 2. poor people, 3. conflicts with surrounding areas, 4. political instability, 5. terrorism, 6. natural disasters, 7. rising sea level.
100
This leader believed that "nothing enduring can be build upon violence".
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
100
Technology created the _______________ in the mid-1960s and increased agricultural production.
What is the Green Revolution?
200
What major river runs across India's northern plains?
What is the Ganges River?
200
The Aryan caste system divided society into four main groups. What were they?
What are priests, warriors, farmers and laborers?
200
South Asia today is full of "problems and promise". Name 3 examples of promise listed in the book.
What are: 1. democracy thrives, 2. pockets of prosperity, 3. growing middle class, 4. technical skills, 5. scientific skills, 6. artistic energy, 7. strong culture.
200
India was ____________ or split into two states to relieve the fear that Muslims would face discrimination if they remained in Hindu-dominated India.
What is partitioned?
200
Flat lands along a river.
What are flood plains?
300
This major mountain pass allows foreigners from the north to enter India.
What is the Khyber Pass?
300
This is the most common religion in India today.
What is Hinduism?
300
Today India has about 1.2 billion people. With high birth rates it is believed that India will overtake China as the world's highest population by the year ______.
What is 2050?
300
In foreign affairs during the Cold War India followed a policy of _____________.
What is nonalignment?
300
The sacred texts of Hinduism.
What are the Vedas?
400
This is the area that the majority of the people in South Asia live.
What is in the flood plains near the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers?
400
Which religion believes that one spirit lives in all things, this spirit may take the form of lesser gods and goddesses, the human soul is eternal, and Karma determines the kind of life that will follow when the soul has been reborn?
What is Hinduism?
400
With high populations a strain is put on the area's natural ___________ such as water and land.
What are resources?
400
Indian film industry.
What is Bollywood?
400
This religion first entered the subcontinent of India from travelers and merchants.
What is Islam?
500
Explain subsistence farming.
What is farming where crops are grown to feed the farmer and his family and there is little left over for surplus?
500
This religion began with the Hindu search for salvation. It believes that suffering is caused by desire and the soul can reach a state of nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
500
India has this form of government, which means that it is not based on religion.
What is secular democracy?
500
Long poems of adventure and conflict.
What are epics?
500
The largest religious group in Bangladesh.
What is Muslim?
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