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What are the countries in South Asia?
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
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What are the two island countries of South Asia?
Sri Lanka, and Maldives.
What are the three endangered animals in South Asia?
Tiger, Asian elephant, and one horned rhino.
What are castes
Social ranking systems
Where is the oldest known civilization found
Near the Indus River
What are the mountain ranges in South Asia?
Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalayas.
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Why is the regions climate so diverse?
Because the physical features are so diverse.
What is the oldest known civilization?
Indus Valley civilization.
What is the order of caste systems
Priests or Brahmans, warriors, merchants, and then, laborers or peasants
What was the first religion in South Asia
Hinduism
What are the rivers in South Asia?
The Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra.
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What climate does the region mostly have?
Tropical wet dry
were long poetic texts
Vedas
The language that vedas were written in is
Sanskrit
what fraction of the worlds people live on the alluvial plain?
1/10
The region has 3 seasons, what are they?
Hot, wet, cool
What are the two low mountain ranges?
Western and eastern Ghats.
What does the Indian government argue that dam projects will provide?
Water for drinking, irrigation, and electricity.