Central Asia Vocab
The Taliban
What is an extremist organization founded by religious students of a harsh version of Islamic orthodoxy who reside in AFGHANISTAN?
Bollywood
What is India's hollywood?
Caste System
What is a Hindu social structure in which classes are determined by heredity? ex. India
Theocracy
What is a government controlled by religious leaders? ex. Tibet
Bustees
What are sprawling squatter settlements?
Dalit
What are so-called "untouchables", whose ancestors held "impure" jobs, such as leather working or trash collection?
Pashtuns
the majority ethnic group of Afghanistan
Hindi
What is the most widely spoken language with 500 million speakers?
Hinduism
What is a complex faith that lacks a single system of belief?
Infidels
What is the Taliban's view on those who aren't Islamic?
Urdu
What is the language spoken by the Muslim minority in India, but is it the official language of Pakistan?
Sikhism
What is a religion birthed in the 1400s from the tension between Islam and Hinduism that didn't have castes? Resides in PUNJAB, INDIA.
Densely Settled Alluvial Fan
What is fertile soil brought by the fan that is intensely cultivated by surrounding villages and towns? TENTE RIVER IN KAZAKHSTAN (12 miles):
Population Control
incentivize sterilization to slow down population growth
Brahmans
What is one of the highest castes in Hindu usually a priest?