Hinduism
These two adjectives best complete the following statement: Hinduism is the world's 1._____________ 2. ____________ religion.
What are "oldest" and "living"?
This is the term for a religion that worships more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
Almost all South Asian GDPs are this in comparison to other countries' GDPs from around the world.
What is below average?
Most South Asian countries have this many majority ethnic groups.
What is one?
At 29,032 feet, this is the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
This is Hinduism's view on other religions.
What is that every religion is a different path to the same end?
This is the term for the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth taught in Hinduism.
What is reincarnation?
This term refers to things like roads and utilities which have a major negative impact on South Asia's economies.
What is infrastructure?
Fertile river valleys in South Asia tend to have this type of population density.
What is high?
This caused the formation of the Himalayan Mountain Range.
What is the impact of the Indian subcontinent on the Eurasian plate/plate tectonics?
These were created to make Hinduism more accessible (easy to understand) for the common people.
Epic poems or the Upanishads are both acceptible answers
These are the two most popular religions in South Asia.
What are Hinduism and Islam?
India's government is a democracy but is described as being this kind of democracy.
What is flawed?
This term is defined as the unfair treatment of people based on gender (usually women).
What is sexism?
More than 50 mountains in the Himalayan range are this.
What is taller than the tallest mountains outside Asia/over 23,600 feet tall?
This Hindu god is also known as the Cosmic Spirit, the Creator, and the source of all other gods and human souls.
Who is Brahma?
People of India bathe in, drink from, and use the water of this highly polluted river because they believe it to be holy.
What is the Ganges river?
This term describes foreign countries using Indian workers in India to operate call-centers, help-lines, etc., which helps India's economy.
What is outsourcing?
In India it is illegal to discriminate against people based on this social hierarchy, but many still do.
What is the caste system?
This term is defined as the physical features of an area (hint: not geography).
What is topography?
These are the three questions Hindu gurus attempted to answer that mirror the cycle of existence.
Why are we born? How should we live? What happens to us after we die?
This term is the Hindu belief that every person has a spiritual record of good and bad deeds that follows them from one life to the next.
What is karma?
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan are _______________ republics, with religion playing a major role in how the government is run.
What is Islamic?
This is the reason Delhi has so many pollution and infrastructure problems.
What is overpopulation?
This term is defined as wind patterns that bring rain and storms to Asia, bringing both water and fertile soil as well as destructive flooding.
What is monsoons?